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The Prime Minister visits Norway, 6 September 2006
On Wednesday, September 6th, the Prime Minister, José
Ramos-Horta, started a three day visit to Norway. On this particular
visit, the Timorese Prime Minister will have work meetings with
his counterpart, the Norwegian Prime Minister and the Norwegian
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
On the first day of the official program of this visit, Prime
Minister Ramos-Horta will meet with Norwegian Prime-Minister,
Jens Stoltenberg. Prime Minister Ramos-Horta will also have a
working lunch with the Minister of Foreign Relations, Jonas Gahr
Store. Later in the afternoon, he will have a meeting with the
Minister of International Development, Erik Solheim.
The Prime Minister's visit will also include a meeting with the
Presidency of the Parliament (Storting's Presidium) and a meeting
with the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs.
In this visit to Norway, Prime Minister José Ramos-Horta
will be accompanied by the Minister of Labor and Community Reinsertion,
Arsénio Bano, and a Diplomat from the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Cooperation, Licínio Branco.
In these meetings, the Prime Minister will work in conjunction
with the Norwegian authorities, who have demonstrated continuous
help to Timor-Leste, "to ask for more help with the national
dialogue program and reinforce the assistance to the level of
humanitarian assistance and development."
During the rest of his visit, Prime Minister José Ramos-Horta
will participate in various activities in the capacity of a Nobel
Peace Prize Laureate. These activities will relate to the participation
of the North-South Forum of FK Norway ("Fredskorpset"
- a Norwegian organization that gives support to development).
Prime Minister Ramos-Horta will be the guest of honour at the
international advisory council meeting of this organization.
Thursday's program will discuss the questions of the construction
of peace and the management of conflicts. Ramos-Horta will give
a speech about his own fight, "in the formation of an independent
and peaceful Timor-Leste."
On Friday, in addition to a visit to the Nobel Peace Centre and
to The Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights, Prime Minister
Ramos-Horta will give a speech at the Nobel Peace Institute, joined
by two other Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Rigoberta Menchu and
Wangari Maathai, about "being a Nobel Laureate."
The Prime Minister and his delegation left Dili on Monday, September
4th and have a planned return to Timor-Leste of next Monday, September
11th.
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