NORWAY'S HIGH LEVEL UNGA ATTENDANCE

UNCLAS OSLO 000471

SIPDIS

FOR IO/UNP (SUN),USUN (DUGAN),NSC (BROWN),EUR/PGI
(ELDRIDGE)

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP CVIS UNGA NO
SUBJECT: NORWAY'S HIGH LEVEL UNGA ATTENDANCE

REF: STATE 68590


1. (U) The GON's "preliminary" details provided to post in
response to reftel are as follows:


A. Attendance of the Head of State: No plans to attend.


B. Attendance of the Head of Government
--Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg
--Arrival on 19 September, departure on 23 September
--Spouse Ingrid Schulerud will attend
--No interpretation services required


C. Attendance of the Foreign Minister
--Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere
--Arrival on 21 September, departure on 25 September
--Spouse will not attend
--No interpretation services required

D.Other VIPs attending
--Minister of the Environment and International Development
Erik Solheim
--Arrival on 21 September, departure on 23 September
--Spouse will not attend
--No interpretation services required


--State Secretary Haakon Gulbrandsen, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs (equivalent to Deputy Secretary of State)
--Arrival on 21 September, departure on 25 September
--Spouse will not attend
--No interpretation services required


--Director General Geir O. Pedersen, head of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs UN section
--Arrival on 21 September, departure on 25 September
--Spouse will not attend
--No interpretation services required


2. (U) Requests for meetings: Prime Minister Stoltenberg
has at present not decided which bilateral talks he may
request. Foreign Minister Stoere will request a bilateral
meeting with Secretary of State Clinton, something being
pursued by the Norwegian EMBASSY in Washington, DC.


3. (U) None of the above named people currently plan to
travel elsewhere in the U.S. on this trip.
HEG