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17/04/2008
Press release
Ministry of Government Administration and Reform
Users of public electronic services may look forward to a better future. The Norwegian government has decided to establish a public infrastructure - a common hub - for electronic ID (eID). This decision means that in the future citizens may use the
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17/04/2008
Press release
Ministry of Finance
The response at the first deadline for submissions, 31 March 2008, is very good. A total of 80 projects, with volumes of 90 million CERs, of which more than 40 million CERs for delivery during the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, are
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17/04/2008
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Women must be given more power. It makes economic sense. We will simply not be able to eradicate poverty if half the population is barred from political and economic participation, said Minister of the Environment and International Development
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16/04/2008
News story
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- We deplore the death threats against Shirin Ebadi and her family, said State Secretary Raymond Johansen at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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16/04/2008
Press release
Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs
“The meeting confirms that Russian and Norwegian fisheries authorities still are in a position to cooperate well. We have discussed the positive developments in the illegal fishing in the Barents Sea, Norwegian-Russian cooperation on research, and
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16/04/2008
News story
Ministry of Petroleum and Energy
The British Minister of Energy Mr. Malcolm Wicks and the Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy Ms. Åslaug Haga have taken a joint initiative to gather colleagues to an informal discussion on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) on Sunday 20 April.
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15/04/2008
News story
Ministry of Education and Research
The Norwegian Minister of Higher Education and Research Tora Aasland has signed agreements on research collaboration and higher education with her colleagues in Brazil, Argentina and Chile. The agreements lay the basis for closer collaboration in
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14/04/2008
News story
Ministry of Trade and Industry
It is a great pleasure for me to address you on the occasion of the opening of the French Norwegian Space Forum here in Oslo.
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10/04/2008
News story
Ministry of Justice and the Police
Document no. 15 (2007-2008), Question no. 806, dated 12 March 2008. From Ivar Kristiansen (Conservative Party) to the Minister of Justice. Answered on 14 March 2008 by Minister of Justice Knut Storberget (Labour Party).
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08/04/2008
Press release
Office of the Prime Minister
Political talks and Norwegian culture will be on the agenda when German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Oslo on Saturday 12 April.
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07/04/2008
News story
Ministry of Government Administration and Reform
- The building won’t be any obstacle, Minister of government administration and renewal, Ms Heidi Grande Røys, said as she last Friday handed over the key to Norway’s new opera house to Minister of culture and church affairs, Mr Trond Giske. She was
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04/04/2008
Press release
Ministry of Finance
- Despite financial turmoil in the second half of 2007, this was a satisfactory year for the Government Pension Fund, says Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen.
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02/04/2008
News story
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
In response to the considerable recent media focus on Norway’s policy in Somalia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wishes to clarify the following points.
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02/04/2008
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Director General Vegard Ellefsen has been appointed Political Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with effect from 7 April 2008.
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01/04/2008
News story
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- 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
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28/03/2008
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The UN Human Rights Council has adopted a proposal put forward by Norway to renew the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders for a further three years.
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28/03/2008
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
It was decided by the King in Council friday to recognise the Republic of Kosovo as an independent state.
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28/03/2008
Press release
Ministry of Defence
The Government today presented the new long-term plan for the Armed Forces: A Defence for the protection of Norway’s security, interests and values. The Government wishes to give the Armed Forces a substantial financial boost. The Government also
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28/03/2008
Press release
Ministry of Justice and the Police
The Ministry of Justice has received the report on the loss of the anchor-handling vessel “Bourbon Dolphin”- A special commission of enquiry chaired by appellate court judge Inger Lyng has clarified the course of events and causal factors in
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27/03/2008
Press release
Ministry of Education and Research
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2008 to John Griggs Thompson, University of Florida and Jacques Tits, Collège de France. This was announced by the Academy’s President, Ole Didrik Lærum, at a press