Friendship Association Norway–Albania
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Friendship Association Norway–Albania or VNA was an organization in Norway
, supporting political and cultural relations with Albania.
VNA arranged seminars and study trips to Albania. Initially, VNA was dominated by the Socialist Youth League.
In 1979, VNA was divided, based on the Sino-Albanian split
. An extraordinary conference of VNA was held. At the conference 67 members of VNA, mainly affiliated with the Communist University League, resigned from the association. This group then founded the Norwegian–Albanian Friendship Association (Norsk-Albansk Vennskapsforening).
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
, supporting political and cultural relations with Albania.
VNA arranged seminars and study trips to Albania. Initially, VNA was dominated by the Socialist Youth League.
In 1979, VNA was divided, based on the Sino-Albanian split
Sino-Albanian split
The Sino-Albanian split in 1978 saw the parting of the People's Republic of China and People's Socialist Republic of Albania, which was the only Eastern European nation to side with the PRC in the Sino–Soviet split of the early 1960s.-History:...
. An extraordinary conference of VNA was held. At the conference 67 members of VNA, mainly affiliated with the Communist University League, resigned from the association. This group then founded the Norwegian–Albanian Friendship Association (Norsk-Albansk Vennskapsforening).