Historical archive
Published under: Stoltenberg's 2nd Government
In the Historical archive you will find information from previous governments such as press releases, news and speeches from previous government periods. You will also find outdated current affairs from the sitting government. In addition the archive contains documents where the content is no longer valid, such as expired circulars.
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“Norway regrets the decision taken by the Belarusian authorities to close its embassy in Stockholm until further notice and to request that Sweden withdraws all personnel from its embassy in Minsk,” said Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.
More countries must prohibit the use of cluster munitions. This is the clear message from foreign ministers Jonas Gahr Støre and Adnan Mansour as Norway now takes over from Lebanon as President of the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
Today, Norway and the World Food Programme (WFP) signed a four-year agreement on Norwegian funding of NOK 245 million a year, amounting to a total of nearly NOK 1 billion.
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is participating today at the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit in Laos. He is the first Norwegian prime minister to do so. Norway, Switzerland and Bangladesh today became members of ASEM, a key forum for dialogue
Norway has provided an additional NOK 50 million to the fight against polio, which remains endemic in three countries: Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria.
The State-level Agreement establishing the North European Functional Airspace Block (NEFAB) enters into force on 23 December 2012.
On 20 December, Minister of International Development Heikki Eidsvoll Holmås met President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. Friday he will meet Somali students in Oslo to share his impressions with them.
Six health workers attached to Pakistan’s polio vaccination programme have been shot and killed.
In connection to the shooting in Connecticut, Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg tonight gave a short comment: My thoughts are with the families who have lost their loved ones in the horrible shooting in Connecticut.
The Government will conduct another pilot of Internet voting for the parliamentary election of 2013, due to positive experiences from the pilot in 2011. - We still need to know more before we can conclude on whether or not this should be a future
The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has received applications from 36 companies by the deadline for applications in the 22nd licensing round on the Norwegian continental shelf. The Ministry intends to award new production licences before the summer
Never before have so many UN member states supported the fight against the death penalty. “This is a very welcome development,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide.
“The escalation of the violence is worrying, and any further escalation could have grave consequences. A great responsibility now rests on all parties to bring an end to the hostilities as quickly as possible,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen
- The hostilities that have broken out in Georgia have reached a scale that is unparalleled since the conflict in the Balkans in the 1990s. The civilian population is being subjected to terrible suffering. The conflict represents a violation of key
On 15 September Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre launched the Government’s humanitarian strategy, entitled Norwegian Humanitarian Policy.
The donor countries and Hungary failed to agree on how the funding for civil society was to be administered. Therefore no funding will be provided to Hungary for the implementation of programmes during the current period, and Hungary loses access to
From 5 July, Norwegian entry restrictions and quarantine rules will be based on the same threshold values as those applied in the EU. The Norwegian Government has made several changes on the basis of the weekly country assessments by the Norwegian
Prime Minister Erna Solberg indicated at the NATO Summit in Brussels that Norway is willing to support the continued operation of the field hospital in Kabul until the end of 2021, after NATO’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. This will be important to
On Monday June 14 Prime Minister Solberg, in her capacity as co-chair of the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy (Ocean Panel), invited President Macron to join the Panel. President Macron responded positively to the invitation.
The Ministry of Transport invites tenderers to an open tender procedure for the operation of six routes as part of a scheme of temporary publicly subsidised scheduled air services related to the pandemic. The deadline for submitting tenders is 7