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09/03/2013
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“I congratulate the Kenyan people on a peaceful election,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide.
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07/03/2013
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“It is absolutely unacceptable that Syrian rebels have taken UN peacekeepers hostage on the Golan Heights. They must be released immediately,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide.
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05/03/2013
News story
Ministry of Agriculture and Food
This year it is five years since the first boxes of seeds from food crops were carried into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Today, more than 770,000 different seed samples are deposited in the vault for long-term storage.
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04/03/2013
News story
Ministry of Health and Care Services
Minister of Health and Care Services Jonas Gahr Støre wants to allow smoking of heroin in drug consumption rooms. This is not a legalisation or decriminalisation of heroin smoking. The proposal will require an amendment of the Drug Injection Rooms
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01/03/2013
News story
Ministry of Defence
Recommendation from the Norwegian Ministry of Defence on 1 March 2013 and approved by the Council of State on the same date. (Stoltenberg's Second Government). This is an English summary of the White Paper.
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01/03/2013
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“Norway condemns the increasingly brutal attacks against the Syrian population and the recent use of Scud missiles, and I urge the Security Council to respond decisively,” said Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide.
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28/02/2013
News story
Ministry of Petroleum and Energy
“This is good news for Norway. These increased resources represent a vast asset for the Norwegian society. I am particularly pleased for Northern Norway, which has clearly confirmed its position as Norway’s next oil region,” says Minister of
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28/02/2013
News story
Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs
On Tuesday INTERPOL organized an international enforcement conference related to fisheries crime. At the conference INTERPOL launched its international collaboration effort Project SCALE. The project is intended to raise awareness of fisheries crime
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26/02/2013
Press release
Office of the Prime Minister
Norway is establishing an embassy in Yangon in Myanmar. This was announced by Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg when he met the President of Myanmar, Thein Sein, in Oslo on Tuesday. The President is in Norway on an official visit.
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25/02/2013
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“This agreement on peace, security and cooperation in the Democratic Republic of Congo offers hope to a population that has endured great suffering,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide.
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25/02/2013
News story
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Norway will host an international conference on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons in Oslo 4-5 March 2013. The conference provides an arena for a fact-based discussion of the humanitarian and developmental consequences associated with a
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22/02/2013
News story
Ministry of Defence
On Friday the 22nd of February it was revealed that the US has chosen to suspend flight operations with the F-35 to allow the manufacturer of the engine time to examine a crack in a turbine blade. This was discovered in a single aircraft during a
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22/02/2013
News story
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“Norway is disbursing the whole amount of its budget support to Palestine for 2013 now because Palestinian public sector employees urgently need to be paid again,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide. Norway’s support is helping to
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22/02/2013
News story
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“It is the civilian population that is hardest hit in armed conflicts. We must ensure better protection of civilians,” said Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide at the opening of the conference on civilian protection in Austria.
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20/02/2013
Press release
Office of the Prime Minister
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was today on a working visit to Oslo. Topics on the agenda for her visit included energy and economic development in Europe. “In these difficult times, when the economic crisis is putting pressure on all European
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20/02/2013
News story
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“I am pleased that we have now extended the grant scheme for studies in the High North to include students from Japan and South Korea in the 2013-16 period,” commented Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide. Students from Canada, Russia and the US have
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18/02/2013
Press release
Ministry of Labour
Press release from the Norwegian Technical Calculation Committee for Wage Settlements: The basis for wage settlements in 2013. Preliminary report.
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15/02/2013
News story
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“Norway condemns the killing at the end of last week of nine health workers in northern Nigeria,” said State Secretary Arvinn Gadgil.
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15/02/2013
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Norwegian Government has decided to cancel all Guinea’s debt to Norway, which amounts to around NOK 100 million (USD 17.2 million).
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15/02/2013
Press release
Office of the Prime Minister
Ms. Henriette Westhrin has today been honourably discharged as state secretary to Minister of the Environment Bård Vegar Solhjell, from a date to be decided by the Office of the Prime Minister. Ms. Gina Lund has been honourably discharged as state