Ambassador Braathu visits Zubin Potok

This year, the Norwegian Embassy has supported and funded several projects in the Municipality of Decan, in western Kosovo. Ambassador Braathu visited the municipality – to meet the Mayor and the people of Decan, and in order to inaugurate the projects the Embassy had supported. In addition, Decan municipality is a “special” municipality in that Norwegian social-anthropologist, Berit Backer, di...

Since 1991 Norway’s total project assistance to the Western Balkans has reached more than NOK 10 bn. (approximately € 1,2 bn.). For 2009 the allocation is NOK 575 million. The assistance primarily targets key reform and development processes in the region, and increasingly focuses on democracy-building measures, long-term capacity- and institution-building and private sector development,...

The Mitrovica Rock School, which the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Prishtina has supported for two years in a row, has been featured on January 25, 2012 in articles in the free Serbian national daily newspaper 24 Sata and the paid daily Blic.

A memorandum of understanding between the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and USAID was signed on November 16, 2011 regarding the support of the Norwegian Government to the USAID Model Court program in Kosovo. Norway will contribute 17.6 million NOK (3.2 million USD), over the span of three years.