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26/08/2008
Press release
Office of the Prime Minister
“My hope is that in December next year the following clear message will be sent from the climate conference in Copenhagen to the business world, consumers and entrepreneurs all over the world: “The era of free polluting is over!””, Norway’s Prime
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02/10/2008
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Norway’s Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre met Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister, Seyoum Mesfin, last week in New York in connection with the UN General Assembly. The two ministers agreed to normalise relations between Norway and Ethiopia.
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27/09/2008
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Following the decision taken at the NATO summit in Bucharest, it was decided today in the Council of State to request the consent of the Storting to invite Albania and Croatia to join NATO.
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24/09/2008
Press release
Office of the Prime Minister
New York: Spain, Norway and the United Kingdom announced a commitment today of at least $290 million over the next two years as part of a new multi-donor funding mechanism to improve United Nations work in development at the country level.
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23/09/2008
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has informed the chair of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers that Member of the Storting (the Norwegian Parliament) Thorbjørn Jagland is Norway’s candidate for the position of Secretary General in the
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06/06/2011
Press release
Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs
“To utilise the full potential of the oceans and to meet the challenges facing us, we must gain greater knowledge of the ocean,” says Norway’s Minister for Fisheries and Coastal Affairs Lisbeth Berg-Hansen.
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25/03/2011
News story
Ministry of Finance
On 21-23 March, the Norwegian Ministry of Finance hosted, together with the OECD, the first Tax and Crime Conference: a Whole of Government Approach in Fighting Financial Crime.
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19/03/2011
Press release
Office of the Prime Minister
“Norway is prepared to provide up to six F-16 fighter aircraft to participate in the enforcement of Security Council resolution 1973,” Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said.
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16/03/2011
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“Norway condemns the violence against peaceful protesters in Bahrain, and we are concerned about the situation in the country. It is particularly worrying that the conflict seems to have taken on a sectarian dimension, with tension between Shia and
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15/03/2011
News story
Ministry of Finance
The Ministry of Finance has excluded the Chinese company Shanghai Industrial Holdings Ltd. from the investment portfolio of the Government Pension Fund Global on account of its tobacco production. The Ministry has also decided to revoke its decision
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11/03/2011
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Today the Government adopted regulations imposing targeted sanctions on the Libyan regime, taking Security Council resolution 1970 (2011) as its basis. “The international community hopes the sanctions will help to stop the violence and bring the
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10/03/2011
News story
Ministry of Agriculture and Food
As of Friday 11 March 20011 all cats and dogs older than three months that have been in Sweden and that cross the Norwegian/Swedish border into Norway must be treated for fox tapeworm. This tapeworm is not dangerous for the cats and dogs themselves,
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01/03/2011
Press release
Ministry of Petroleum and Energy
The planning of a full scale CO2-capture and storage (CCS) plant at Mongstad is in progress. There is, however, a need for further knowledge concerning the use of amine technology and possible effects on health and the environment. Assessment of
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16/03/2009
Press release
Office of the Prime Minister
Today, the Government presented the latest version of its High North strategy. It has a strong focus on business development, both on land and at sea, and announces increased investments in communications, shipping routes and harbours in the north.
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18/03/2009
Press release
Ministry of Finance
The Ministry of Finance laid down regulations relating to Folketrygdfondet’s management of the Government Bond Fund today. The Fund has been established with a ceiling of NOK 50 billion.
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26/03/2009
News story
Ministry of the Environment
The Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority has just published a report on a hypothetical accident at Sellafield in England, which concludes that if only 1% of the liquid radioactive waste stored at the plant is released to air, the radioactive
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26/03/2009
News story
Ministry of Education and Research
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2009 to the Russian-French mathematician Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (65) for “his revolutionary contributions to geometry”.
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27/03/2009
Press release
Office of the Prime Minister
In today’s session of the Council of State Ms. Sigrid Hjørnegård, politcial advisor, has been appointed state secretary to Minister of Petroleum and Energy Terje Riis-Johansen, and Ms. Lotte Grepp Knutsen, political advisor, as state secretary to
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03/04/2009
Press release
Ministry of Finance
“We take climate change seriously. Today the Government presented a Report to the Storting detailing its plan to establish a new investment programme pertaining to environmental issues and initiating a broad climate-change study. We also want to
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17/04/2009
Press release
Ministry of Petroleum and Energy
The Petroleum Price Board has set final norm prices for offshore-loaded Norwegian crude oil lifted in 2008.