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Oslo Residents Do Not Want U.S. Embassy
Friday, 27-Jun-2008 3:14PM United Press International
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OSLO, Norway, June 27 (UPI) -- Neighbors of a proposed site for a new U.S. embassy in the Norwegian capital want the building to go somewhere else.

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The U.S. State Department has rejected other sites, Aftenposten reported, leaving only a piece of empty land known as Huseby Skogen in a residential neighborhood just outside of downtown Oslo.

The dispute creates a dilemma for the governing Labor Party, the newspaper said. The Oslo city government proposes rezoning the embassy site, which would block the plan, while the national government is struggling with its obligation to provide an acceptable site.

Huseby residents say that the embassy would occupy the only open land remaining in the neighborhood, be a potential terrorist target and bring even more traffic to an already busy street.

The State Department rejected a site about half a mile away at a former military command center.

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