The 20. January is a day where the deep regret should stick with the foreign Ministry’s political leadership. Trump is inaugurated as president of the united STATES. With him he has a team of people who not only will break in pieces the agreement that keeps Iran free of nuclear weapons, but also live out Barack obama’s ambitious atomopprustningsprosjekt the equivalent of 6 Norwegian statsbudsjetter.
minister of Foreign affairs Børge Brende has done its best to give the new president a good impression. Before the election he asked the question about Trump’s statements, it 21. century, but has now tverrvendt, and say, bl.a. pleased with Trump’s claim that Nato member states spend more money on defence in exchange for continued security guarantee.
Norway was well known that the the first country in the world to dispel its participation in the united nations-negotiations on a atomvåpenforbud in 2017, based on Nato membership.
at the same time the Government has for over three years consistently ignored the Nato requirement to spend 2% of GDP on Defense. Nato commitments are, therefore, so the Government sees it pretty tøyelige. The current interpretation is found on the Trumps twitterkonto.
Nato-country the Netherlands, which even has stock with us nuclear weapons, however, was the first country in the world to confirm its participation at the forbudsforhandlingene in 2017.
the Government has , therefore, come up with innovative theories about why the constant development of new nuclear weapons leads to a world without nuclear weapons. One of these is that the non-proliferation treaty will be weakened if one makes the agreement verbatim request; a treaty banning nuclear weapons. The netherlands, Finland and Sweden are among those who have discovered the contradiction.
But the significant attention around Norwegian atomvåpenpolitikk the last few years, shows that Norwegian foreign policy is rigid, good and bad. It has never previously been Norwegian policy to engage in attempts at sabotage of the popular nedrustningstiltak during the Un general assembly. Therefore, meetings Solberg-government fierce political opposition.
And it must be with an embarrassed taste in the mouth, that Norway’s skilled diplomats have been instructed to spend their time in the united nations to defend the nine atomvåpenstatenes tedious monologues of a disarmament which do not take place.
It must also be much for those to observe how Sweden foreign minister, Margot Wallström, has carried out a lærebokeksempel on effective, workable and trustworthy foreign policy. Sweden as partner countries of Nato also experienced a strong pressure to not support negotiations on atomvåpenforbud.
The usual suspects; US, France and the united Kingdom use Nato as an eternal excuse for their own kjernevåpenprogrammer, and inserts his massive diplomatic resources that no one should misunderstand this point. But rather than collapsing like a house of cards at the first confrontation, held Wallström head cold. In December 2015 created she an official group consisting of folkeretts and nedrustningseksperter, as well as representatives from civil society. The mandate was to look at the possibility for Swedish support to a atomvåpenforbud.
With the background of the recommendations from the group, voted Sweden yes the united nations-negotiations on a atomvåpenforbud during the annual general meeting in 2016. The internal opposition in Sweden was referred to the material to the opinions that lay to reason. Norway’s ratings follows without blygsel an american Nato-note, which claims that a optional. ban will be able to destroy the alliance’s atomvåpenplanlegging.
Donald Trumps twitteradferd include everything from accusing opponents to be as nazityskland, to the promises of even more money for the modernization of atomvåpenprogrammer. Such unpredictability is considered a virtue for those who are faithful to the avskrekkingsdoktrinen. With Trumps finger on the atomknappen have the Government’s utenrikspolitikere therefore got what they indirectly wanted.
Anyway, I hope those who read this inlays share it on Twitter. 2017 looks to be the year where Twitter gets more influence on Norwegian foreign policy than the Parliament.
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