UPDATE: NORWEGIAN PM STOLTENBERG WILL NOT/NOT

UNCLAS OSLO 000577 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL ECON NO SUBJECT: UPDATE: NORWEGIAN PM STOLTENBERG WILL NOT/NOT ATTEND FRIENDS OF DEMOCRATIC PAKISTAN SUMMIT, SEPTEMBER 24 REF: A. A. OSLO 566 ¶B. B. SECSTATE 96052 ¶1. (U) Due to unforeseen circumstances, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg must return to Oslo on Wednesday, September 23, and therefore will be not/not represent Norway at the Friends of Democratic Pakistan Summit as originally reported Ref A. Norway will be represented instead by Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere. MFA Senior Advisor Knut Espeland told PolOff September 21 that Norway did have substantive announcements to make at the FoDP Summit, and remained hopeful that Foreign Minister Stoere would be able to make remarks in PM Stoltenberg's absence. ¶2. (U) FM Stoere will be accompanied by Norway's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Morten Wetland and MFA Communications Assistant Director Ragnhild Imerslund, in addition to MFA Af/Pak Director Kanavin and MFA Af/Pak Advisor Espeland as reported in reftel A. HEG