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23/03/2011
News story
Ministry of Defence
- The Norwegian Government is prepared to participate in the military operation in Libya in a broadest possible coalition, including participation from nations in the region, says the Norwegian Minister of Defence.
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17/09/2008
News story
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Norway has decided to allocate NOK two million to the IRW’s efforts on preventing gender-based violence and strengthening education for internally displaced children and young people in Iraq. Norway is also considering supporting the organisation’s
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09/03/2011
Press release
Office of the Prime Minister
During Mr. Roger Roger Solheim’s period as acting state secretary in the Ministry of Culture, the Office of the Prime Minister has appointed Ms. Siv Larssen Aasvik (32), teacher, Stokmarknes, as acting political adviser in the ministry 15 March 2011
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04/03/2011
Press release
Office of the Prime Minister
Due to today’s change in the Government, Mr. Ivar Vigdenes resigned as political adviser to Minister of Petroleum and Energy Terje Riis-Johansen as of 2.15 pm. The Office of the Prime Minister has from the same point in time appointed Ivar Vigdenes
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11/03/2011
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Today State Secretary Ingrid Fiskaa launched the new Taxation for Development programme, which is aimed at helping poor countries to increase their own tax revenues.
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17/10/2008
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
According to the OSCE’s preliminary assessment of the presidential election in Azerbaijan on 15 October, considerable progress was made with regard to procedures on election day itself. However, there were clear shortcomings during the period
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06/04/2011
News story
Ministry of Petroleum and Energy
State secretary Mr. Per Rune Henriksen attends The Second Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) in Abu Dhabi today and tomorrow. - The aim of CEM is to contribute in developing and deploying smart and climate friendly technologies and solutions for future
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21/09/2008
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“The Government condemns today’s terrorist attack outside the Marriott Hotel,” said Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. “We have expressed to the Pakistani authorities our sympathy at the loss of so many lives and requested that this be conveyed to
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02/04/2011
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon contacted Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre on Saturday 2 April to express his condolences in connection with the killing of the Norwegian officer in Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan the day before.
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18/03/2011
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“I condemn the violence against protesters in Yemen and am deeply concerned about the deteriorating situation and the violence in the country,” said Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.
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01/10/2021
News story
Ministry of Health and Care Services
The Norwegian Government is introducing a duty to complete travel quarantine for Slovakia and three regions in Finland. The changes will enter into effect on Monday 4 October at 12 am.
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17/09/2021
Press release
The Office of the Prime Minister
In today’s session of the Council of State, state secretary Lucie Katrine Sunde-Eidem has been honourably discharged as state seceratary to Minister of Trade and Industry Iselin Nybø.
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12/10/2021
Press release
Ministry of Finance
To ensure simultaneous access to information that might be market sensitive, the Ministry of Finance publishes selected key figures at 8:00AM prior to the budget launch at 10:00 am. More detailed estimates will be published together with the
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23/02/2011
Press release
Office of the Prime Minister
“I look forward to the Nordic World Ski Championships and the atmosphere in the Holmenkollen arenas here in Oslo, and to sharing the events with my colleagues from Finland, Poland and Sweden", says Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.
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02/03/2011
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The UN General Assembly has suspended Libya from the UN Human Rights Council in response to the Libyan authorities’ gross and systematic human rights violations against the country’s own population.
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02/03/2011
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Shahbaz Bhatti, who was Minister of Minorities in the Pakistani federal government, was assassinated today in Islamabad. Mr Bhatti was a fearless champion of human rights and the rights of minorities in Pakistan.
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16/04/2009
News story
Ministry of Finance
Norway today concludes a tax information exchange agreement with Bermuda. The agreement will enable the Norwegian and Bermudian tax authorities to exchange tax information for the purposes of preventing international tax evasion.
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30/09/2021
News story
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The World Health Organization (WHO) has been sharply criticised in a report by an independent commission on how the organisation has dealt with the alleged sexual exploitation and abuse by WHO staff in the response to the Ebola outbreak in the
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12/04/2009
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- I deeply deplore the fact that unauthorised persons unlawfully forced their way into the Sri Lankan Embassy in Oslo and caused extensive damage. This is a violation of Norwegian law and an action that is totally unacceptable, said Mr Støre.
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09/10/2010
News story
Ministry of the Environment
Washington, DC October 9, 2010
The Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF) was established today and the first payment from Norway to the Fund of approximately US$30 million is now being processed.