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China rejects Norwegian diplomat entre visa
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
Former Norwegian Prime, Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, has been denied a visa to China.
Bondevik leads Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights, the World Council of Church's Commission for International Affairs.
On Monday, he would have led a meeting of the World Church to Nanjing
in the Chinese province of Jiangsu. But he's still in Norway. On
Friday, he learned that he is the only one of the 30 participants at
the meeting who did not receive a visa, writes the Norwegian daily,
Aftenposten.
This is a huge contrast of fortunes because only in October 2002 the
then Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik was warmly welcomed by those
in power in Beijing. President and party leader Jiang Zemin told the
Norwegian government leader then how impressed he was by Norway, and
asked Bondevik to extend greetings to Norway’s King Harald.
Ten years later, Bondevik has become persona non grata in China as he
became the only one out of 30 people not wanted in China at the moment.
Norway has had problems with China since the award of the Nobel Peace
Prize to Chinese democracy activist Liu Xiaobo in October 2010. Since
then a large number of Norwegians are refused entry to China among them
two committees in Parliament had to cancel their planned trips to China.
By Scancomark.se Team
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