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Redd Barna wants to use war oil money

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Save the Children NTB Redd Barna, Save the Children Norway, is opposed to parts of the budget for aid to developing countries being spent on refugee work in Norway and believes that increased oil revenues as a result of the Ukraine war should be used instead. “The refugee response in Norway should be financed by the increased oil revenues as a result of the war in Ukraine,” said Birgitte Lange, Secretary-General of Redd Barna in a press release. The backdrop for the discussion is the government’s package for Norway’s management of the Ukraine war crisis, in which NOK 10.7 billion has been set aside for measures to deal with Ukrainian w
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