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 You will also find outdated current affairs from the sitting government. In addition the archive contains documents where the content is no longer valid, such as expired circulars.
Content that has been moved to the archive will not be updated and the information is therefore exclusively of an historical nature.
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The new strategic concept for the Norwegian Armed Forces is now available in English. Follow this link for the pdf-version of “Capable Force”.
Nuclear Capabilities in a Changing Security Environment - a Norwegian Perspective, by State Secretary of the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Defence, Espen Barth Eide.
Address by Minister of Defence Grete Faremo at the 2009 Army Summit, 6 November 2009.
Ms Grete Faremo is Norway’s new Minister of Defence. She received the keys for her new office from her predecessor, Ms Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen, who as of today is Minister of Health.
The minister of Defence is responsible for the political management and control of the Norwegian Armed Forces and for the formation and implementation of Norwegian security and defence policy.
Collective defence in today's security environment. Article V, credibility and changing environments. Address by Mr. Espen Barth Eide, Deputy Minister of Defence.
The Government proposes to allocate NOK 34.9 billion for defence in 2010. The Northern regions, international operations and the veterans are given priority.
Berlin Conference on the Destruction of Cluster Munitions, 25.-26. June 2009 Opening statement by Deputy Minister Espen Barth Eide
Opening address by Norway’s Deputy Minister of Defence, Mr. Espen Barth Eide.
Lieutenant General Harald Sunde was appointed General and new Chief of Defence by the King in Council today.
Espen Barth Eide deltok på NATOs parlamentarikerforsamlings konferanse i Oslo 22. mai, hvor han holdt innlegg om klaseammunisjon og Oslo-prosessen.
Defence Minister of Norway, Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen. The Atlantic Council of Finland, 11th of May 2009.
Norway has been a driving force internationally in the work to ban cluster munitions. It was therefore with great satisfaction that Deputy Minister of Defence Espen Barth Eide was today able to press the button to destroy the first batch of Norway’s
Some might argue that NATO must choose between remaining an organisation for collective defence and becoming a crisis management organisation with global reach, but in my view this is more a question of achieving the right balance between the
The Norwegian Government has decided to send a new Nansen-Class Frigate to the EU anti-piracy naval operation ATALANTA outside Somalia.
We now have a unique opportunity - either we work to put the nuclear genie back in the bottle, and devise the control and verification mechanisms, necessary to ensure its use for purely peaceful purposes, or we can continue on the road to our own
By the Norwegian Defence Minister Mrs. Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen, at The Leangkollen Seminar, 2 February 2009.