The post would open “later this year” and would be staffed with one US diplomat. Read more at straitstimes.com.
OSLO - The US will open its northernmost diplomatic station in the Norwegian Arctic town of Tromsoe, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday, at a time when cooperation among the Arctic nations has been hit by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“To deepen our own engagement in the high north, I am announcing today the United States will be opening an American presence post in Tromsoe,” Mr Blinken told reporters after a two-day meeting of Nato foreign ministers in Oslo.
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