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03/12/2015
News story
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Four new ambassadors to Norway presented their credentials to His Majesty King Harald V on 3 December 2015.
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07/12/2015
News story
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
‘Temperatures in the Arctic are rising two to three times faster than the global average. This will have dramatic consequences. The rapid pace of climate change in the Arctic is a warning of what will happen in the rest of the world unless we reach
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09/11/2015
News story
The Office of the Prime Minister
Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg visited Lebanon and Jordan on 7-9 November 2015. She met Syrian refugees in settlements in Lebanon and in the Zaatari camp in northern Jordan. Ms Solberg also had a number of political talks with key leaders to
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10/10/2015
News story
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Today, 82 % of the world’s states have introduced a moratorium on the death penalty or have abolished it. ‘I’m pleased to see that the international trend is moving away from the use of the death penalty. However, there are some countries where this
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07/10/2015
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Government proposes an increase in funding for global health efforts of NOK 150 million in next year's budget. This would provide a total of more than NOK 3 billion for measures to improve maternal and child health, and to fight AIDS,
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05/10/2015
News story
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Oslo Conference on Safe Schools: Protecting Education from Attack, was organised in Oslo 28-29 May 2015. The main objective of the Conference was for states to endorse the Safe Schools Declaration.
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08/09/2009
Press release
Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs
“Norway has a long tradition of harvesting the sea and has developed a high level of competence in the marine sector and bioprospecting. Through this new strategy, we are facilitating an exploitation of our marine resources that can provide us with
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25/08/2009
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
On 25 August 2009 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to allocate NOK 1.6 million spread over three years to a project at Bodø University College. The purpose of the project is to increase knowledge about the Northeast Arctic cod stock.
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31/08/2009
News story
Ministry of Finance
On 31 August, the Ministry of Finance submitted proposed new regulations on the management of the Government Pension Fund - Global to Norges Bank and the Office of the Auditor General for comment. The Ministry’s regulation of Norges Bank’s
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17/09/2009
News story
Ministry of the Environment
Norway has proposed a system for financing climate needs based on international auctioning of allowances within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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23/09/2009
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The donor group for the Palestinian Authority (AHLC) welcomes the political program of the Palestinian government for establishing a Palestinian state within the next two years.
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28/09/2009
News story
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
On Thursday 24 September 2009, Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre chaired this year's Trygve Lie Symposium in New York. The aim of this year's symposium was to agree on a way forward to increase respect for international humanitarian law and its
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23/10/2009
Press release
Office of the Prime Minister
The Office of the Prime Minister has as of today appointed several political advisers.
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20/10/2009
News story
Ministry of Government Administration and Reform
Rigmor Aasrud is appointed minister in charge of the Ministry of Government Administration and Reform, and of church affairs in the Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs and the Department of Sami and minority policy in the Ministry of Labour and
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22/11/2019
Press release
Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries
The Government is not asking the Storting for new authorisations to reduce the state’s ownership. The framework for the state’s exercise of ownership has remained unchanged since the early 2000s, and will continue to apply.
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22/11/2019
Press release
The Office of the Prime Minister
In today’s session of the Council of State, the King has appointed Ms. Inger Klippen as temporarily state secretary to Minister of Health, Mr. Bent Høie, from 1 January to 4 October 2020.
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30/10/2019
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
In connection with the Nordic Council’s session in Stockholm, Norway has signed two maritime delimitation agreements, with Iceland and Denmark/the Faroe Islands. State Secretary Jens Frølich Holte signed the agreements on behalf of Norway. An
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11/10/2019
News story
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Norway is deeply concerned about Turkey’s unilateral military operation in northeastern Syria. We call on Turkey to cease this operation immediately and to respect international law. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs conveyed these views to the
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03/10/2013
Press release
Ministry of Finance
The Ministry of Finance has signed an agreement with the Nordic Environment Finance Corporation, NEFCO, to purchase carbon credits in the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (2013-2020). Through this agreement Norway will purchase up to
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19/09/2013
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“I welcome the fact that Iran has decided to release a number of political prisoners including human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh. I hope that the release of these prisoners is the first important step towards improving the human rights situation