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12/06/2009
Article
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Here is the programme for The Biological Weapons Convention Supporting Global Health: Reducing Biological Risk by Building Capacity in Health Security.
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12/06/2009
News story
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The main aim of the Norwegian engagement in Afghanistan is to support the Afghan authorities in their responsibility to ensure stability, security and development. In accordance with the Paris donor conference agreement and NATOs political-military
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11/06/2009
Speech/statement
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- A coherent approach to the Decent Work Agenda not only concerns matters of labour and trade. It is also relevant for other pressing global issues, such as human rights and our fight against climate change, Foreign Minister Støre said in his speech
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Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre
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11/06/2009
Speech/statement
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre made the introductory remarks at the Round-table Coherence and accountability forum about decent work in Geneva.
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Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre
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10/06/2009
Press release
Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion
Norway has experienced a steep increase in the number of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers during the last two years. It is important to ensure that those among them who do not have needs for international protection are assisted to create a sound
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10/06/2009
Press release
Ministry of Transport and Communications
New Air Services Agreements between Singapore and Norway, Denmark and Sweden, respectively, were formally signed today. Mr. Erik Lahnstein, State Secretary of the Royal Ministry of Transport and Communications, signed on behalf of Norway, while Mr.
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09/06/2009
Speech/statement
Ministry of Education and Research
Opening speech at the informal meeting of OECD Ministers of Education in Oslo 9. june 2009. The opening speech was held by The Norwegian Minister of Education Bård Vegar Solhjell.
The meeting in Oslo is convened in order to discuss at ministerial
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Minister of Education Bård Vegar Solhjell
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09/06/2009
Speech/statement
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Foreword by Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in a Czech brochure on the EEC Grants.
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Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre
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09/06/2009
Article
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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08/06/2009
Press release
Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion
The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI) has received instructions to request stronger demands on documented identity in asylum cases. If an asylum seeker refuses to do what is practically possible to document his or her identity, then the
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08/06/2009
News story
Ministry of the Environment
A new report on ecosystem services, climate and forest was launched on World Environment Day 5 June. Commissioned by the Norwegian Minister of the Environment and International Development, Erik Solheim, and carried out by the International
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08/06/2009
Speech/statement
Ministry of the Environment
Download the presentation. (pdf)
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Former State Secretary Heidi Sørensen
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08/06/2009
Speech/statement
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Palestinian economy will not be sustainable until there is a political solution to the conflict. The AHLC’s main mission has been - and is - to help to keep the wheels turning in support of the political track in the interim, Foreign Minister
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Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre
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05/06/2009
Speech/statement
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Norway’s main contribution to a successful outcome in Copenhagen will - we hope - be within the fields of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), studies on the climate change in the Arctic, and on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest
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Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre
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05/06/2009
News story
Office of the Prime Minister
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg met Bill and Melinda Gates today to discuss international health, the role of the private sector in the fight against poverty, and how the international financial crisis is affecting the world’s poorest.
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04/06/2009
Speech/statement
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
In conclusion, I would like to welcome the Lithuanian presidency of the CBSS for the upcoming 12 months, and confirm that Norway will assume the CBSS presidency from the first of July 2010. Norway is thus prepared to host the next ordinary
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Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre
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04/06/2009
Speech/statement
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre's speech in Edinburgh on 4 June 2009.
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Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre
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04/06/2009
News story
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Norway has decided to allocate 6 million US Dollars (42 million NOK) on a pioneer project for the assessment of availability of groundwater source for Dar es Salaam Water Supply.
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03/06/2009
Speech/statement
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- The royalties (in sum: NOK 1 million) of the books will be helpful - I hope - in assisting ARTICLE 19 with the implementation of its ambitious programme of work to defend freedom of expression, Foreign Minister Støre said in a speech at the
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Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre
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03/06/2009
Speech/statement
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- The laureates present here today know better than many others what freedom of expression really means. You have taken on the mission to defend free speech in your own countries, Foreign Minister Støre said in his speech at the ceremony in The
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Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre