By Xinhua
Stockholm : Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will be visiting India in the first leg of his two-nation tour that will also include Nepal, according to a statement posted on the website of the office of the prime minister.
He will leave Oslo for his third India visit Wednesday, the statement said.
During his stay in New Delhi, Stoltenberg will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. An important topic on their agenda will be “efforts to reach a new and comprehensive international climate agreement,” the statement said.
Other main topics will be fighting against maternal and child mortality and Norwegian industrial opportunities in India.
Stoltenberg will also deliver an address at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit, which will be presided over by noted environmentalist Rajendra Pachauri who heads the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that has won the Nobel Peace prize for 2007.
After India, Stoltenberg will visit Nepal. He will have talks with the leaders of Nepal. The central topic during the visit will be climate threats to the water resources related to the glaciers of the Himalayas, according to the statement.