14/10/2011 President
Strasbourg, 14.10.2011 – Mevlüt Çavusoglu, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will make an official visit to Norway from 19 to 21 October. During his visit, he is due to meet the President of the Storting – Norwegian Parliament – Dag Terje Andersen and the leaders of political groups as well as the State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide. He will hold an exchange of views with the members of the Storting Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and with the Norwegian delegation to PACE.
Talks are also scheduled with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Tore Schei and with the Director of the Nobel Institute Geir Lundestad. In addition, Mr Çavuşoğlu will deliver a speech at the Institute for Human Rights. An audience with His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon is also planned.
On 21 October, President Çavusoglu will lay flowers at the Oslo Cathedral, in memory of the attacks that occurred on 22 July in Oslo and on the Utøya island.