" These younger leaders have repeatedly expressed frustration with the entrenched corruption in the party, which has been run by the " Old Guard " who returned from exile in Tunisia following the Oslo Accords.

Abu Daoud believes that if the Israelis knew that Mahmoud Abbas was the financier of the operation, the 1993 Oslo Accords wouldn't have been achieved, during which Mahmoud Abbas was seen in photo ops at the White House.

Since 1988, the student organization Tårnseilerne have produced annual masquerade balls in Oslo in the historical renovated freemasons lodge in the Carnival tradition, with masks, costumes and processions after attending an opera performance.

Since The Oslo Agreement, violent episodes have been recurrent in the city.

While Norwegian soldiers are known to have been competing in Nordic skiing since the 19th century, the first major competition in Nordic combined was held in 1892 in Oslo at the first Holmenkollen Ski Festival, an event still held annually.

The Oslo Accords may appear not to have considered factors that would influence its interpretation.

Norwegian academics, including Norway's leading authority on the negotiations, Hilde Henriksen Waage, have focused on the flawed role of Norway during the Oslo process.

Waage has written that, " Had the missing documents been accessible, there seems no doubt they would have shown the extent to which the Oslo process was conducted on Israel's premises, with Norway acting as Israel's helpful errand boy.

He may have been crowned King of Norway in Oslo in 1392, but this is disputed.

They have 43 search and rescue boats based from Oslo in the south to Båtsfjord in the north.

The museum was financed from the profits generated by the Oslo municipal cinemas and opened its doors in 1963 to commemorate what would have been Munch's 100th birthday.

The main southern roads connecting Oslo to Sweden and Denmark have passed through Oppegård since the Iron Age.

On 22 September 2005, FIS stated that an all-new Holmenkollbakken would have to be built if Oslo was to host the World Championships and World Cup tournaments.

After opening in 1972, services have been mainly to Oslo, Bergen, and Trondheim.

In addition, we have to note that Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra has greatly contributed to Norwegian musical life.

They have offices in Oslo, Norway ; Dortmund, Germany ; Japan ; Singapore ; and Westminster, Colorado, USA.

The residents also have access to boat traffic from nearby Lysaker, and until 1998 access to the now-defunct Oslo Airport, Fornebu.

According to the Oslo Agreement the right of all faiths to have access to holy places was to be guaranteed.

With heavy traffic and many small stops until Lillestrøm, and continuing north as single track, the Trunk Line would have to be supplemented by a parallel double track from Oslo, with a new route north of Kløfta to Eidsvoll ; the north of the airport allowing trains operating on the Dovre Line to Lillehammer and Trondheim to access the airport.

The societies in Oslo and Trondheim operates the student houses, and do also have subgroups who are engaged in theatre, political debates, radio, TV and newspaper.

The student stations in the three biggest university towns ( Oslo, Bergen, and Trondheim ) have in cooperation put together the list, but with the expectation it will be played by smaller student stations throughout the country.

First of all it was decided that the new airport was to have an as environmentally friendly ground infrastructure as possible, resulting in the decision to build a high speed railway on the 56 km stretch from Oslo Central Station to the airport, which would only take 19 minutes.

Some commentators have noticed that one of the foremost Norwegian authorities on Tveitt, Hallgjerd Aksnes, Professor of Music at the University of Oslo, did not address this question in her article on Tveitt in Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

Many of the albums have been recorded with Jan Erik Kongshaug ( of Talent Studios and later Rainbow Studios ) in Oslo, Norway, as sound engineer ; other engineers have included Martin Wieland ( who recorded Jarrett's " Köln Concert "), James Farber, Stefano Amerio and, on classical recordings, Peter Laenger.

The joint celebrations for his mother Henriette's 80th birthday and his son Ernst's engagement, held in Oslo on 2 June 1939, would be the last time the two met.

Jan P. Syse met Else Walstad while they both were students at the University of Oslo in 1955, and they were married in 1959.

On August 14, 1939, Fish, president of the U. S. delegation to the Interparliamentary Union Congress conference in Oslo, Norway, met with Joachim Ribbentrop.

There had been six years of negotiations since the Oslo Agreement of March 1990, and Arzú gave them a vital new impulse when he personally met the URNG in Mexico on February 26, 1996.

'" Paddick currently lives in Vauxhall, London, with Petter Belsvik, a civil engineer from Oslo, Norway ; they met in a bar while on holiday in Ibiza.

After the signing of the Oslo Accords, the PNC met in Gaza in April 1996 and voted 504 to 54 to void parts of the Palestinian National Covenant that denied Israel's right to exist, but the charter itself has not been formally changed or re-drafted.

On January 22, he arrived in Oslo, met Pauly and was told he had to supervise the building of a camp to house approximately 3, 000 prisoners to be used in slave labour.

Since then, the Conference has met at Paris, France ( 1949 ); London, England ( 1952 ); Stockholm, Sweden ( 1955 ); Toronto, Ontario ( 1958 ); Jerusalem, Israel ( 1961 ); Helsinki, Finland ( 1964 ); Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ( 1967 ); Dallas, Texas ( 1970 ); Seoul, Korea ( 1973 ); London, England ( 1976 ); Vancouver, British Columbia ( 1979 ); Nairobi, Kenya ( 1982 ); Zurich, Switzerland ( 1985 ); Singapore ( 1989 ); Oslo, Norway ( 1992 ); Jerusalem, Israel ( 1995 ), Seoul, Korea ( 1998 ), and Los Angeles, California ( 2001 ).

President Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and Palestinian Prime Minister Yasser Arafat met and the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993, which called for the gradual ceding of control of Palestinian areas to the Palestinians in exchange for peace.

They met in Bergen, and Christian took Dyveke with him to Oslo, where he was regent, and to Copenhagen, when he became king in 1513.

Pessi's collaboration with pianist Christian Wallumrød brought her regularly to Oslo, where she met and became friends with Suanna, the pianist's sister.

In 1992 representatives from the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel met in the hotel where they began talks that led to the historic 1993 Oslo Peace Accord.

Several prominent opponents of Sverre, including bishop Nikolas Arnesson of Oslo, who had been a halfbrother of King Inge I of Norway and exiled archbishop Erik Ivarsson met at the marketplace of Halör in Skåne, then part of Denmark.

That same year he met American singer Anne Brown, who moved with him to Oslo where the couple eventually married.

On 11 December 2007, Pachauri ( representing the recipient IPCC ) and co-recipient Al Gore delivered their acceptance speeches at an awards ceremony in Oslo, Norway, on a day when delegates to a United Nations climate conference were meeting in Bali, Indonesia.

* The Scandinavian Mountains create a rain shadow for lowland areas east of the mountain chain and prevents the Oceanic climate from penetrating further east ; thus Bergen west of the mountains receives 2, 250 mm precipitation annually while Oslo receives only 760 mm, and Skjåk, a municipality situated in a deep valley, receives only 280 mm.

He claimed he did not like the Bergen weather, although he later said he would accept a move to Oslo which has a more dry climate than Bergen.