11.   In Oslo, the Norwegian foreign ministry could not confirm nor deny reports of the kidnapping.

12.   In Oslo, the Norwegian foreign ministry said Norway would support the Danish motion.

13.   In Oslo, a Norwegian foreign ministry spokesman confirmed that the body had been identified by a representative of the Norwegian embassy in New Delhi.

14.   In Oslo, the Norwegian foreign ministry said Russia should not feel threatened by the maneuvers.

15.   Instead it was the acting ambassador who appeared, Norwegian foreign ministry spokesman Geir Pedersen said.

16.   A Norwegian foreign ministry spokesman said Monday Bye might be ordered to remain in Oslo.

17.   An agreement on a formal ceasefire in Guatemala will be signed in Oslo in October, Norwegian foreign ministry state secretary Jan Egeland said on Friday.

18.   But the Norwegian foreign ministry has chosen to lay low in the hopes that the Pakistani directive is not implemented.

19.   Experts from Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian authority have spent three days in Oslo discussing water resources in the Middle East, the Norwegian foreign ministry announced Friday.

20.   The Norwegian foreign ministry said last week that it had not been told that Gavahi was being recalled in disgrace.