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* Section for East Asia and Oceania (Asia-I)

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01.01.2006* Founding by splitting

Name: * Section for East Asia ans Oceania

Short name: Seksjon for Øst-Asia og Oceania

Affiliations: Ministry

Hierarchical level: Section

Superior body: Department for Global Affairs

Located: 301 Oslo

Ended body as a consequence of dividing:

* Asia section

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

01.01.2009* Change of name

Name: Section for Asia and Oceania

Short name: Seksjon for Asia og Oceania

01.01.2009* Maintenance by absorption

Incorporated bodies:

* Section for South Asia

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

01.01.2011* Change of name

Name: * Section for East Asia and Oceania (Asia-I)

Short name: Asia-I

Bilateral relations with Australia, Myanmar, Philippines, Indonesia, East Timor, Japan, Cambodia, Laos, China, North and South Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam on foreign policy issues, economic cooperation, peace building and development cooperation . Regional organizations and the China Project.
Source: Regjeringen.no 2011

Remarks

* = If a date is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies that the date is not confirmed.

* = If a name is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies a direct translation from Norwegian to English. The translation is thus not necessarily the official one (if any exists at all).

Comment to the change-of-name event: Sometimes the old and new name is the same. This occur when the translation to English haven’t taken into consideration minor Norwegian name change.