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07/06/2007
Speech/statement
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- I agree that climate change and energy supply are both part of a broader security concept. The key drivers in the Norwegian High North policy - climate change, energy and Russia - are part of our broader, more up-dated security concept, State
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Former State Secretary in MFA Liv Monica Bargem Stubholt
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07/06/2007
Speech/statement
Ministry of Petroleum and Energy
Speech by Anita Utseth, State Secretary, EITI event on Caspian Oil and Gas Conference in Baku, 7 June 2007.
By
State Secretary Anita Utseth
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06/06/2007
Speech/statement
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- The Somalis themselves must take the responsibility for the future of Somalia. But the international community should and must assist the Somali people, Statee Secretary Raymond Johansen said in his statement at the ICG meeting on Somalia.
By
State Secretary Raymond Johansen
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06/06/2007
Speech/statement
Ministry of Petroleum and Energy
Speech by State Secretary Anita Utseth at the oil conference in Baku, 6 June 2007.
By
State Secretary Anita Utseth
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06/06/2007
News story
Ministry of Agriculture and Food
European Commissioner Markos Kyprianou is impressed at the level of food safety in Norway. On Monday he got to study the system at sea. Today the focus is on agricultural food production.
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05/06/2007
Speech/statement
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
We have a real potential for broader and deeper cooperation - between business interests as well as between local and regional governments across the Norwegian-Finnish border, Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said in his speech at the Helsinki
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Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre
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05/06/2007
Letter
Ministry of Finance
Reference is made to letter from EFTA Surveillance Authority 11 April 2007, requesting information regarding the appointment of a Working Group which shall look into and consider the issues of ownership and voting restrictions in the field of
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04/06/2007
News story
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Most of the global ice and snow cover is rapidly declining. This will have large global, regional and local consequences for human beings and nature. This is the main message of the UNEP report “Global Outlook for Ice and Snow” which was presented
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04/06/2007
Speech/statement
Ministry of Children and Equality
Thank you, Mme Chair, for giving me the floor and the possibility to present some of the Norwegian and Nordic experiences within the field of gender-sensitive budgets. My presentation will be from within government and working close to the Cabinet.
By
Director General Erik Saglie
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04/06/2007
Speech/statement
Ministry of Children and Equality
Intervention in Panel Discussion, EU-conference on Gender Budgeting, June 4 -5 in Frankfurt.
By
Director General Erik Saglie
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04/06/2007
Speech/statement
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- There is a need for continued work to make development cooperation - as well as other policies - more research-based. There is also a need to link research and policy, as also is the aim of this conference today, Mrs Stenhammer said in her
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Former State Secretary for International Development Anne Margareth Fagertun Stenhammer
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04/06/2007
Speech/statement
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Our relations with the EU are our closest globalisation project, Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said during his biannual address on important EU and EEA matters to the Storting 4 June.
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Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre
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04/06/2007
Speech/statement
Office of the Prime Minister
- Gro Harlem Brundtland was a visonary and built an international consensus on the need for ustainable development. The Brundtland report led to the UN Conference on Environment and Development, also known as the Earth Summit of 1992. And to a range
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04/06/2007
Speech/statement
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
We have learned new lessons about interdependency. And I believe that we have seen re-confirmed: When we face problems or disagreements, our political impulses must be to seek solutions through dialogue, Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said in his
By
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre
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04/06/2007
Press release
Ministry of the Environment
Most of the global ice and snow cover is rapidly declining. This will have large global, regional and local consequences for human beings and nature. This is the main message of the UNEP report “Global Outlook for Ice and Snow” which was presented
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04/06/2007
Press release
Ministry of the Environment
Tromso/Nairobi, 4 June 2007 — The futures of hundreds of millions of people across the world will be affected by declines in snow cover, sea ice, glaciers, permafrost and lake ice a new and unique report launched to mark World Environment Day (WED)
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04/06/2007
News story
Ministry of the Environment
Drawings made by children and a great show opened the World Environment Day in Tromsø Sunday.
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03/06/2007
Press release
Ministry of the Environment
Svalbard represents natural and cultural values that Norway has a special responsibility for securing on a global basis, and UNESCO has signalled a specific interest in arctic nature. Minister of the Environment Helen Bjørnøy has therefore initiated
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03/06/2007
Press release
Ministry of the Environment
On 1. June the Norwegian Government imposed a ban on the use of Heavy Fuel Oil onboard ships inside the two large nature reserves covering most of the territorial waters of eastern Svalbard. The Government also decided that ships sailing in these
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01/06/2007
Press release
Ministry of the Environment
Climate change and environmentally hazardous substances are the most important threats to polar bears. Climate change may reduce the extent of sea-ice significantly, and thus reduce the habitat available for polar bears for feeding and reproduction.