{"id":305996,"date":"2018-11-23T08:37:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T08:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305996"},"modified":"2018-11-23T08:37:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T08:37:13","slug":"ex-norway-prime-minister-holds-talks-with-kashmir-separatists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ex-norway-prime-minister-holds-talks-with-kashmir-separatists\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Norway Prime Minister holds talks with Kashmir separatists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305997 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181123-140311__01-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181123-140311__01-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181123-140311__01-768x477.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181123-140311__01-1024x636.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181123-140311__01-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181123-140311__01-696x432.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181123-140311__01-1068x664.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181123-140311__01-676x420.jpg 676w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181123-140311__01.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Prime Minister of Norway on Friday held a meeting with the top separatist leaders in Kashmir. This was revealed by the chairman of the Hurriyat faction (M)\u00a0 Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in a tweet.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Fruitful meeting of JRL (Joint Resistance Leadership) with Mr Kjell Magne Bondevik, Ex Prime Minister of Norway. As Norway is known to play a constructive role in conflict resolution across the globe urged Mr Bondevik to help in ending the daily killings and urgent resolution of the festering Kashmir dispute,\u201d Mirwaiz posted on Twitter.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This is first time that a former Prime Minister of Norway has visited Kashmir and held talks with the separatists. Norway is well-known for its role in the efforts to resolve conflicts\u00a0 in Palestine,\u00a0 Sri-Lanka.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bondevik&#8217;s visit to Kashmir and his meeting with the separatists\u00a0 is thus seen as very significant.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bondevik served as Prime Minister of Norway from 1997 to 2000, and from 2001 to 2005, making him Norway&#8217;s longest serving non-Labour Party Prime Minister since World War II. Currently, he is President of the Oslo Centre for Peace and Human Rights.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Prime Minister of Norway on Friday held a meeting with the top separatist leaders in Kashmir. This was revealed by the chairman of the Hurriyat faction (M)\u00a0 Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in a tweet.\u00a0 &#8220;Fruitful meeting of JRL (Joint Resistance Leadership) with Mr Kjell Magne Bondevik, Ex Prime Minister of Norway. As Norway is known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[9839,2596,9840],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305998,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305996\/revisions\/305998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}