This has been a fantastic year for my new blog here on www.larskarlsson.com. 

Over the last months the interest and mumber if visitors has not only increased but almost exploded. The weblog ‘Capacity Now’ has now by far surpassed my old blog, ‘Nothing is impossible’ in popularity.

Last month I had more than 16.000 vistors/readers which is truly amazing. 


In November 16.181 people read about capacity building on the blog! Thank you. 

I will continue to develop this channel and this arena for information and dialogue about Customs, borders, trade, security, facilitation, development, capacity building, film, music, sports and Zlatan Ibrahimovic. This is a platoform about life. I am glad you like it. 

Stay tuned for 2017. It will be an exiting year with some really interesting news.

Gabon and the Kyrgyz Republic have ratified the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), putting the total number of ratifications from members at 102. Only 8 more ratifications are needed to bring the TFA into force.


The TFA will enter into force once two-thirds of the WTO membership has formally accepted the Agreement.

In addition to Gabon and the Kyrgyz Republic, the following WTO members have also accepted the TFA: Hong Kong China, Singapore, the United States, Mauritius, Malaysia, Japan, Australia, Botswana, Trinidad and Tobago, the Republic of Korea, Nicaragua, Niger, Belize, Switzerland, Chinese Taipei, China, Liechtenstein, Lao PDR, New Zealand, Togo, Thailand, the European Union (on behalf of its 28 member states), the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Pakistan, Panama, Guyana, Côte d’Ivoire, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Kenya, Myanmar, Norway, Viet Nam, Brunei, Ukraine, Zambia, Lesotho, Georgia, Seychelles, Jamaica, Mali, Cambodia, Paraguay, Turkey, Brazil, Macao China, the United Arab Emirates, Samoa, India, the Russian Federation, Montenegro, Albania, Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka, St. Kitts and Nevis, Madagascar, the Republic of Moldova, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Iceland, Chile, Swaziland, Dominica and Mongolia.

We are soon there! This is the game changer of a century for global trade and development. 

Today the Nobel Prize in the memory ofAlfred Nobel is handed out by His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf at the annual ceremony in Stockholm. 

The highlight of the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm occurs when each Nobel laureate steps forward to receive the prize from the hands of the King of Sweden. 

This is the list of Nobel Prize winners 2016:

The Nobel Prize is handed out in line with the will of Alfred Nobel in recognition of academic, cultural, and/or scientific advances. The prize is always awarded on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel’s death. This year 120 years since the death of Nobel. 

It is great day for my country and for the world. Sweden has always been a leader in development and I am proud of this, the most honorable prize in the world in academic reseach and science.