Editing Norway (section)

=== Foreign relations ===
{{Main|Foreign relations of Norway}}
{{See also|Norway and the European Union|Whaling in Norway}}
[[File:KNM Fridtjof Nansen-2006-06-01-side.jpg|thumb|[[Royal Norwegian Navy]] [[Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate|''Fridtjof Nansen'' class frigate]]]]
Norway maintains embassies in 75 countries.<ref>{{cite web |date=26 March 2025 |title=Norway - Embassies and consulates |url=https://www.embassypages.com/norway |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080206092107/http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/ud/dok/veiledninger/2005/Norges-utenriksstasjoner.html?id=88166&epslanguage=NO |archive-date=6 February 2008 |access-date=30 March 2025}}</ref> 73 countries maintain an embassy in Norway, all of them in the capital, Oslo.

Norway is a founding member of the [[United Nations]] (UN), the [[NATO|North Atlantic Treaty Organization]] (NATO), the [[Council of Europe]] and the [[European Free Trade Association]] (EFTA). Norway issued applications for accession to the European Union (EU) and its predecessors in 1962, 1967 and 1992, respectively. While Denmark, Sweden and Finland obtained membership, the Norwegian electorate rejected the treaties of accession in referendums in [[1972 Norwegian European Communities membership referendum|1972]] and [[1994 Norwegian European Union membership referendum|1994]].

After the 1994 referendum, Norway maintained its membership in the [[European Economic Area]] (EEA), granting the country access to the [[Single market of the European Union|internal market]] of the Union, on the condition that Norway implements the Union's pieces of legislation which are deemed relevant.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://intportal.vaf.no/hoved.aspx?m=2761&amid=49981 |title=Refleksjoner fra Brussel – Hospitering ved Sørlandets Europakontor – Vest-Agder Fylkeskommune |publisher=Intportal.vaf.no |date=4 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606042007/http://intportal.vaf.no/hoved.aspx?m=2761&amid=49981 |archive-date=6 June 2013 |access-date=15 August 2010 }}</ref> Successive Norwegian governments have, since 1994, requested participation in parts of the EU's co-operation that go beyond the provisions of the EEA agreement. Non-voting participation by Norway has been granted in, for instance, the Union's [[Common Security and Defence Policy]], the [[Schengen Agreement]], and the [[European Defence Agency]], as well as 19 separate programmes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eu-norge.org/en/Norges_forhold_til_EU/deltakelse/EU_programmer/ |title=EU-programmer |publisher=Eu-norge.org |date=30 June 2009 |access-date=29 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501055247/http://www.eu-norge.org/en/Norges_forhold_til_EU/deltakelse/EU_programmer/ |archive-date=1 May 2011}}</ref>

Norway participated in the 1990s brokering of the [[Oslo Accords]], an unsuccessful attempt to resolve the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]].