Norwegian PM Erna Solberg offers to mediate Indo-Pak talks

Norwegian PM Erna Solberg on Monday offered to use good offices of her country to mediate as and when India and Pakistan find momentum in peace talks and if they seek Oslo's support.

"India and Pakistan will have to find time as to when they go for talks. But if there is a movement for greater talks peace in India and Pakistan we and other countries can help mediating if there is a possibility," Solberg told in a query while inaugurating Norwegian Embassy's green building here. "Our govt policy is very clear, if we are going to help somewhere, they have to ask for it. It is not an initiative that comes from the outside."

Solberg is on a two-day official visit to Delhi and is scheduled to deliver key note address at the Raisina Dialogue here on Tuesday.


The visiting Norwegian PM, while describing former PMs recent visit to Kashmir as a private one, noted that there is no military solution to the Kashmir issue.

Norwegian Ambassador to India Nils Ragnar Kamsvag, however, denied any meditation by her PM between India and Pakistan. "PM @erna_solberg has not offered to mediate between India and Pakistan as has been erroneously reported. Norway has neither been asked nor offered to mediate," he claimed in his tweet.

India has repeatedly rejected all foreign mediation in its bilateral dialogue with Pakistan including on Kashmir.