Venezuela’s government says it will close its embassies in Norway and Australia and open new ones in Burkina Faso and Zimbabwe in a restructuring of its foreign service, after weeks of growing tensions with the U.S.

President Nicolas Maduro’s government said in a statement on Monday that the closures are part of the “strategic re-assignation of resources, adding that consular services to Venezuelans in Norway and Australia would be provided by diplomatic missions, with details to be shared in the coming days.

Norway’s foreign ministry said it had received notice of the embassy closure but no reason for the decision. Norway does not have an embassy in Caracas and handles local affairs through its embassy in the capital of neighbouring Colombia.

The announcement occurred just days after the Nobel Committee in Oslo announced that Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado had won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for fighting for democracy in the South American country.

The embassy closures with the two U.S. allies followed weeks of escalating tensions between Caracas and Washington.