Norway Set to Reopen Embassy in Iraq January 26, 2001 Norway is preparing to reopen its embassy in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, 10 years after it was closed at the start of the Gulf War, the foreign ministry announced Friday. Norway, a new member of the U.N. Security Council, was appointed this month to lead the world agency's sanctions committee on Iraq. Foreign Minister Thorbjoern Jagland said Oslo needs first hand information from Iraq. ''To be able to do the most independent evaluation possible of the conditions in Iraq in connection with our work on the Security Council, we...