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18/01/2008
Press release
Ministry of Petroleum and Energy
The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy have received nominations from 46 companies for blocks for the 20th licensing round on the Norwegian continental shelf. In the 19th licensing round, 19 companies participated in the nomination process. 301 blocks
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26/02/2008
News story
Ministry of Agriculture and Food
From 2009 Norway is going to give an annual contribution to the International Treaty’s benefit-sharing fund for financing plant breeding in developing countries and challenge other OECD-members to contribute likewise. If all the challenged countries
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23/06/2008
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mediators from conflicts all over the world will meet to exchange experience at Losby Manor outside Oslo from 24 to 26 June.
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12/10/2007
Press release
Office of the Prime Minister
“It’s wonderful that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former US Vice President Al Gore. This was truly well deserved,” said Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, congratulating
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19/06/2008
News story
Ministry of Education and Research
Norway and India signed this week a Letter of Intent, a so called Memorandum of Understanding, on cooperation in the field of higher education.
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19/02/2008
News story
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
In a national final ten Chinese students were selected for a study tour to Svalbard as part of a joint Sino-Norwegian Project on climate change and environmental research in the Arctic region. The project is jointly organised by the Polar Research
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14/01/2008
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms that the Norwegian journalist Carsten Thomassen was killed in a terrorist attack today. Mr Thomassen was one of a number of journalists who were accompanying the Foreign Minister on his visit to
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12/02/2008
News story
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
At the Donor Conference for Lebanon held in Paris on 25 January 2007, Norway pledged to provide assistance worth NOK 100 million to Lebanon in 2007. Preliminary figures indicate that the final amount will be NOK 98.3 million.
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18/10/2007
Press release
Office of the Prime Minister
Due to today’s changes in the Government, the King has appointed new state secretaries in the ministries.
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20/06/2008
Press release
Office of the Prime Minister
Due to today’s changes in the Government, the Office of the Prime Minister has made changes among the political advisors
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Political staff
Ministry of the Environment
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24/07/2007
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“We were very pleased to hear that 38 imprisoned Ethiopian opposition politicians have been pardoned and can take up their political activities again,” said State Secretary Liv Monica Stubholt from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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18/10/2007
News story
Ministry of Agriculture and Food
“I am very happy with the progress of the construction work,” says project manager Grethe-Helene Evjen at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
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28/06/2007
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“The appointment of Tony Blair promises a renewed and strengthened engagement by the Quartet,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre after the appointment.
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17/10/2013
Article
Ministry of Finance
The report from the peer review of Norway's policies for sustainable development is now available in English. The report has been supplemented with a foreword by the Minister of Finance and a short summary (pp. 11-13) that describes how the
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25/10/2007
News story
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre is paying a visit to Japan from October 24 to 26.
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Co-hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food and the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway, and the Zambia Agriculture Research Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries
15/11/2007
Report
Ministry of Agriculture and Food
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28/07/2006
Press release
Ministry of Children and Equality
Several legislative changes affecting the Ministry of Children and Equality are due to take effect on 1 July. Among them is an extension of the paid parental leave period reserved for fathers after a birth or adoption - the “father quota”.
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08/03/2007
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre has called on Iran to release all of the women’s rights activists arrested on Sunday. “Their imprisonment violates Iranian women’s right to freedom of expression,” said Mr Støre.
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23/02/2007
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Norway to provide NOK 68 million (USD 11 million) for an international debt cancellation initiative for Liberia. Minister of International Development Erik Solheim met Liberia’s Minister of Finance Dr. Antoinette Sayeh in Berlin today.