Norway dashes Finland's hopes of mountain peak as a gift
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OSLO - Norway's Prime Minister has dashed Finland's hopes of getting an Arctic mountain peak as a gift on its 100-year anniversary, saying there were constitutional problems in re-drawing the border between the two countries.
A campaign to give away the hard-to-wrap Halti mountain, which would make it Finland's highest point at about 1,330 metres (4,363 ft), would require moving the frontier by a few metres into Norway.
"Border adjustments between countries raise challenging legal problems, among them linked to the Norwegian constitution," Prime Minister Erna Solberg wrote on Friday to a mayor in northern Norway who has favoured the gift.
The 1814 constitution stipulates that Norway is "indivisible".
