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 You will also find outdated current affairs from the sitting government. In addition the archive contains documents where the content is no longer valid, such as expired circulars.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 - together with Denmark and Sweden - will hold air services consultations with Singapore on 22 - 23 January 2008. The purpose of these consultation is to further liberalize the existing Air Services Agreements between our countries. Should
“Education is the way out of poverty for many Roma people in Europe. That is why Norway supports measures that enables Roma people to improve their living conditions,” said Norwegian Minister of EEA and EU Affairs Elisabeth Aspaker at the opening of
Thursday November 13th the Norwegian Minister of Agriculture and Food will give a presentation on 'Forests And Bioeconomy' - future steps' at a seminar hosted by the European Forest Institute (EFI) at the European Parliament.
Norway is to lead the effort to ensure that the global activities to fight the Covid-19 pandemic are as effective as possible. Together with South Africa, Norway has been chosen to co-chair the Facilitation Council for the Access to Covid-19 Tools (
Norway is providing assistance to Greece after the devastating fire in the migrant camp Moria on Lesvos. An emergency medical team from Norway will now be sent to the region.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is now advising against non-essential travel to Germany and Liechtenstein, as well as to the regions of Kalmar and Västerbotten in Sweden.
A number of countries have now announced or will shortly announce their participation in the Covax Facility, including members of the Friends of the Covax Facility. Norway has already confirmed full participation in all stages of the Covax Facility.
The Annapolis meeting on the Middle East peace process has resulted in a joint statement by Prime Minister Olmert, President Abbas and President Bush in which the parties commit to peace talks with the aim of securing a final peace agreement in the
’It doesn’t require a lot of effort on my part, but it means a lot to the people we are helping,’ says George Maragoudakis. He is an interpreter in the new asylum system in Greece, which has been developed with support from Norway through the EEA
With help from Norwegian construction students, one of the oldest wooden synagogue in the Baltics have been restored. When the ‘Green Synagogue’ opened to the public it was barely recognisable.
"Norway condemns the detention of Alexander Milinkevich and three other leading opposition politicians in Minsk today", Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg says
The Office of the Prime Minister has as of 10 March appointed Ms. Lubna Jaffery Fjell (27), Fjell in Hordaland, as acting political advisor to Minister of Labour and Social Inclusion Bjarne Håkon Hanssen. She succeeds Ms Hadia Tajik, who since 22
- There is a striking lack of openness in the international financial and business sector. This facilitates illicit financial flows that drain developing countries of enormous sums of money, says Minister of the Environment and International
“Climate change is altering the face of disaster risk. In order to take global challenges of disaster risk reduction seriously, we need to integrate disaster and climate risk management with foreign policy and development cooperation,” said Minister
Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg today met with Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg, South Africa. They discussed efforts to fulfil the UN Millennium Goals.
Minister of International Development Erik Solheim today announced that Norway will be the first Western country to fully implement the transparency principles of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). The purpose of the EITI is
Press release No.: 217/2001 Date: 2 November 2001 New state secretary In today’s session of the Council of State, the King has appointed Ms. Christine Benedichte Meyer (37), vice principal, Bergen, as state secretary in the Ministry of Labour and
The Norwegian Government proposes to allocate NOK 1 125 million to research, technology development and work with carbon capture, transport and storage in 2008.
As a follow-up to the integrated management plan for the Barents Sea and Lofoten, the Government allocated NOK 70 million in 2007 to seismic surveys in the Nordland VII and Troms II areas, outside Lofoten and Vesterålen. In 2008, a further 140
Press release No.: 227/2001 Date: 13 November 2001 Norwegian Prime Minister offers condolences to President Bush Norway’s Prime Minister, Mr. Kjell Magne Bondevik, on Tuesday sent the following message to the US President, Mr. George W. Bush: “Dear