The State Administration Database

* Section for South Asia and Afghanistan (Asia II)

This page shows the event history for this unit.

01.01.2009* Regular founding

Name: Section for Afghanistan/Pakistan
Short name: Seksjon for Afghanistan og Pakistan
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Section
Located: 301 Oslo

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 South Asia and Afghanistan (Asia II)
Short name: Asia-II

Bilateral relations with countries in South Asia: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Afghanistan on foreign policy issues, economic cooperation, peace building and development cooperation. Coordination of India initiative.
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.