Total evaluate following the expose

The newspaper recently claimed he is shifting toward a gigantic listening to in the audit committee. It will be the government’s dealing with of Norwegian help to Ukraine that will be examined, pursuing allegations of chaos, hold off and weak inside coordination.

Yesterday Dagbladet could also say that Justice Minister Emilie Enger Mehl (Sp) stopped the procedure of Ukrainian troopers in Norway this spring.

This just after that the Ministry of International Affairs originally approved the ask for. Many weeks passed ahead of Mehl gave Ukraine the same remedy that the overseas ministry would have provided in the beginning.

– Messy and slow

This was data Mehl didn’t give the Storting when she defined, Dagbladet could as nicely say.

– It is critical that the wounded Ukrainian troopers were being not brought to Norway before thanks to the government’s procrastination. This case has been messy and handled slowly by the govt for several months now, in a circumstance involving human life, Venstre chief Guri Melby tells Dagbladet.

– If now it turns out that the Minister of Justice has withheld information and facts from the Storting, then it does not encourage substantially self-assurance, he adds.

Melby has now put written concerns to Mehl on the grounds that the scenario was briefly suspended as hostilities raged in Ukraine.

– Ukraine is combating for its flexibility against a brutal top-quality electric power and desires all the aid it can get. As an alternative, we experienced to hold out numerous months for government assessments, ministry chaos, and unclear messages. Now the day has come when the Ministry of Justice stopped the evacuation of wounded soldiers without speaking about it.

Other premises

It was Melby who started off the rounds on the situation at Storting as early as May 2 this yr, when the liberal leader questioned if Mehl could validate that Norway experienced received requests and desired to aid Ukrainian troopers.

– The discussion just before the summer season would certainly have been different if we experienced regarded that the Ministry of Justice, in an apparent conflict with the Ministry of Overseas Affairs, has stopped the evacuation. There would have been a debate with different premises, and the governing administration would have to reply for this, now it will have to do so when the Storting reopens.

Monitoring committee chairman Peter Frølich (H) reacted yesterday to Mehl’s failure to advise Storting of the Ministry of Justice’s involvement. Frølich would not rule out violating its obligation to deliver data to Storting.

Notify the manage position

FRP’s Erlend Wiborg, who sits on the municipal committee, claims the situation could demonstrate to be quite really serious for the minister.

– It is pretty significant if the Minister of Justice Emilie Enger Mehl withheld information and facts when replying to the Storting on the acceptance of wounded Ukrainian troopers wounded for treatment method in Norway. We have a ethical obligation to assist the courageous Ukrainian folks in their battle from the Russian invasion, and then it hurts to imagine that the government’s delay has strike the injured Ukrainian soldiers, Wiborg tells Dagbladet.

He warns that the checking committee will now look into the make a difference.

– I believe that this is plainly a matter for the monitoring committee, as the Minister of Justice may possibly have violated the obligation to offer data to the Storting. I expect this to be a topic when the committee satisfies once more before long, claims Wiborg.

Dagbladet wrote it not long ago Emilie Enger Mehl, by all accounts, will be one of the ministers who will be named to the table for the monitoring committee in the course of the autumn. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre (Ap) is another who will quickly have to answer alone in a doable listening to.

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