{"id":1851,"date":"2011-05-11T21:44:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T21:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2011-05-11T21:44:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T21:44:33","slug":"the-new-norwegian-ambassador-to-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/11\/the-new-norwegian-ambassador-to-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"The new Norwegian Ambassador to Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1856\" title=\"22Mutharika Bingu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/22Mutharika-Bingu1-300x283.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" \/>The new Norwegian Ambassador to Malawi, Asbjorn Eidhammer Asjon  Edama\u00a0says\u00a0Malawi\u00a0is an important partner in Africa and that  relationship with his country is very sound.<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian envoy  \u00a0said this when he presented his credentials to the Head of State and  Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Malawi Defence Forces,  President Bingu wa Mutharika at State House at the New State House in  Lilongwe on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dAs an important partner in Africa.\u00a0 We  discussed with the President\u00a0the future\u00a0of Malawi and on how we can help  in the programmes,\u201d he told reporters after Mutharika, who recently  deported British diplomat, received his letters of credence.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34458\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-34458\" href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?attachment_id=34458\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"mail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nyasatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mail.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Norway&#8217;s Eidhammer presents his credential letters to President Mutharika&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He  presented his letters of credence after Norway and Iceland issued a  statement that despite Malawi\u2019s soured diplomatic relations with  Britain, their support and service to the people of Malawi will not  change.<\/p>\n<p>But the two countries condemned the deportation of British  High Commissioner Fergus Cochrane-Dyet, saying it is wrong and  \u201cunjustified\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe, the heads of mission in Malawi representing  Iceland and Norway are, like the European Union Delegation and the EU  heads of mission in Malawi, deeply concerned and surprised about the  expulsion of the British High Commissioner to Malawi. We consider that  decision to be unjustified and inappropriate,\u201d reads the statement which  was signed by Jan Hakon Olsson, charge d\u2019affaires, the Royal Norwegian  Embassy, and Stefan Jon Hafstein, charge d\u2019affaires of the Embassy of  Iceland.<\/p>\n<p>Norway ambassador Edama pledged his country\u2019s continued  support to Malawi, notably in the health sector, Agriculture and the  consolidation of democracy among other development programmes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe shall also help the country in the mitigation of climate change, among others,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In  areas such as health, education and good governance, part of Norwegian  development assistance has been directed through UN agencies such as  United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations  Development Programme.<\/p>\n<p>Norway has also been assisting Malawi in the overall context of the democratic development of the country.\u2014(<em>Reporting by Judith Moyo, Nyasa Times)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Norwegian Ambassador to Malawi, Asbjorn Eidhammer Asjon Edama\u00a0says\u00a0Malawi\u00a0is an important partner in Africa and that relationship with his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,81],"tags":[468,135,469,337],"class_list":["post-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dpp-3","category-national-news","tag-ambassador","tag-ngwazi-bingu-wa-mutharika","tag-norwew","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}