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Hi there!

My name is Laik,

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Laik Hanbaly.

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I am 30 years old,

and I work here at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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As a Foreign Service Trainee, you do a lot of different things.

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We are quite a diverse group

working in many different sections.

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I am currently working in the Section for

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Human Rights, Partnerships and Technology,

where I have a portfolio

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and responsibility for that portfolio.

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In my community, when I said

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first that I would take a bachelor's degree in history, and then a master's in history,

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there were probably many who thought that

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now you are just getting an education to become unemployed.

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That was something I heard a lot

while I was a student.

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I am very glad I did not listen to them.

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I am very glad that I took this master's degree.

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Yes, life as a Foreign Service Trainee?

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It is definitely a position with a fairly steep learning curve.

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It is the intention that you shall... learn how the ministerium works,

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and you are supposed to learn the priorities&  

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that is, Norway s foreign policy priorities.

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For me, it has been very exciting to be able to work with human rights.

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It has been very exciting to be able to

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promote human rights internationally,

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especially in multilateral forums.

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It feels very meaningful.

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Studying MITRA has been incredibly important, both in my job as a journalist at NRK,

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As a history teacher before,

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and now here at the MFA  

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that you have the competence to see the world as a whole

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and not necessarily as separate parts

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as many unfortunately do,

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but that you can see the global trends,

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see how we have influenced each other,

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which actors have played a role in that process.

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So I absolutely have only good things to say about MITRA,

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and I also hope that people back home, so to speak, apply to MITRA at the next opportunity.