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 You will also find outdated current affairs from the sitting government. In addition the archive contains documents where the content is no longer valid, such as expired circulars.
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Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research - NIBIO, now one of the largest research institutions in Norway, was established today, merging staff and responsibilities from Bioforsk, The Norwegian Institute of Forestry and Landscape and The Norwegian
More than 300 project proposals were submitted to the new EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment by the deadline in August.
Together with Transparency International (TI), we have developed a tool to assess potential risks of corruption within the EEA and Norway Grants. TI has now published the 2015 Synthesis Report summarising the results of using the tool during two
A new shipment of seeds from food plants has been deposited in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault for long-term storage. The shipment, that was transported to the seed vault in Longyearbyen this week, contains 20,000 seed samples from Japan, Brazil,
Svalbard Global Seed Vault: At the opening ceremony today, the Prime Minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg, unlocked the vault, and together with the African Nobel Peace Prize-winning environmentalist Wangari Maathai he placed the first seeds in the
The Government proposes to allocate NOK 31.5 billion for defence in 2008. This is a continuation in real terms of last years level of defence funding and gives a 98 percent fulfilment of the funding allocation for the current long-term plan. The
The Government will step up its efforts to strengthen poor countries’ opportunities to trade with other countries. It is therefore proposing an additional allocation of NOK 50 million for “Aid for trade” in the 2008 international development budget.
Minister of Children and Equality Manuela Ramin-Osmundsen has today been honourably discharged from her office, after tendering her resignation yesterday. Minister of Culture and Church Affairs Trond Giske has been appointed chief also of the
Wednesday 3 October, the UN and the African Union (AU) notified Norway that they gratefully accept the offer by Norway and Sweden to provide an engineer unit for the UN/AU Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). The UN and the AU will now notify the
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will establish new consulates general in Guangzhou, China, and southern Spain. The consulates general in Edinburgh and Minneapolis will be given the status of honorary consulates.
“The news of the attacks on East Timor’s President José Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao is very serious”, Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg says.
During Monday’s debate in the UN General Assembly on disarmament and international security, Norway called for a new concerted effort to reduce the nuclear dangers facing the world. All countries share a responsibility to join in this effort by
In a comment to the proposal for regulations of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the Ministry of Finance welcomes the U.S. commitment to an open investment environment.
Ms. Sigrid Hjørnegård, political advisor in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, has been appointed acting state secretary in the Ministry of Finance for the period 6 August-3 September 2007.
The Office of the Prime Minister has from 19 October appointed Ms. Anne Tingelstad Wøien (42) (Cent.), as political advisor to Minister of Transport and Communications, Liv Signe Navarsete (Cent.)
Norway and Russia signed an agreement today on maritime delimitation of a coastal area at the mouth of the Varangerfjord.- The signing of an advanced maritime boundary agreement of this kind strengthens our neighbourly relations with Russia and is a
“It is a welcome development that North Korea has shut down its nuclear facilities and that this has been verified by the IAEA. This is an important step on the road towards a nuclear-weapon-free Korean Peninsula,” said Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr
At the invitation of the Norwegian Government, representatives of the five coastal States of the Arctic Ocean - Canada, Denmark, Norway, the Russian Federation and the United States of America - met at the level of senior officials on 15 and 16
Following a tender announced in September The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has received offers from about 10 different CDM projects in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The volume offered totals about 4 million CERs.
- There is an ongoing debate in Norway about whether the integration of immigrants is successful or not. A new European study demonstrates that Norway succeeds in many areas, and we are pleased to have this confirmed, says Mr. Bjarne Håkon Hanssen,