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 You will also find outdated current affairs from the sitting government. In addition the archive contains documents where the content is no longer valid, such as expired circulars.
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Six health workers attached to Pakistan’s polio vaccination programme have been shot and killed.
In connection to the shooting in Connecticut, Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg tonight gave a short comment: My thoughts are with the families who have lost their loved ones in the horrible shooting in Connecticut.
The Government will conduct another pilot of Internet voting for the parliamentary election of 2013, due to positive experiences from the pilot in 2011. - We still need to know more before we can conclude on whether or not this should be a future
The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has received applications from 36 companies by the deadline for applications in the 22nd licensing round on the Norwegian continental shelf. The Ministry intends to award new production licences before the summer
Never before have so many UN member states supported the fight against the death penalty. “This is a very welcome development,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide.
“The escalation of the violence is worrying, and any further escalation could have grave consequences. A great responsibility now rests on all parties to bring an end to the hostilities as quickly as possible,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen
- The hostilities that have broken out in Georgia have reached a scale that is unparalleled since the conflict in the Balkans in the 1990s. The civilian population is being subjected to terrible suffering. The conflict represents a violation of key
On 15 September Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre launched the Government’s humanitarian strategy, entitled Norwegian Humanitarian Policy.
The donor countries and Hungary failed to agree on how the funding for civil society was to be administered. Therefore no funding will be provided to Hungary for the implementation of programmes during the current period, and Hungary loses access to
From 5 July, Norwegian entry restrictions and quarantine rules will be based on the same threshold values as those applied in the EU. The Norwegian Government has made several changes on the basis of the weekly country assessments by the Norwegian
Prime Minister Erna Solberg indicated at the NATO Summit in Brussels that Norway is willing to support the continued operation of the field hospital in Kabul until the end of 2021, after NATO’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. This will be important to
On Monday June 14 Prime Minister Solberg, in her capacity as co-chair of the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy (Ocean Panel), invited President Macron to join the Panel. President Macron responded positively to the invitation.
Statement by Minister of Agriculture and Food Olaug Bollestad at the FAO confersene, 14-18 June 2021.
The Ministry of Transport invites tenderers to an open tender procedure for the operation of six routes as part of a scheme of temporary publicly subsidised scheduled air services related to the pandemic. The deadline for submitting tenders is 7
The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has today sent a proposal to announce the licensing round APA 2021 (Award in Pre-defined Areas) for public consultation.
Norway strongly condemns the abduction of Jestina Mukoko. We call on the Zimbabwe authorities to do everything in their power to ensure that Mukoko is released and brought to safety, says State Secretary Raymond Johansen.
The Israeli ground offensive in Gaza constitutes a dramatic escalation of the conflict. Norway strongly condemns any form of warfare that causes severe civilian suffering, and calls on Israel to withdraw its forces immediately,Foreign Minister Jonas
The Government has submitted a proposition to the Storting (the Norwegian Parliament) on incorporation of the EU Services Directive into the EEA Agreement. The ministers from the Socialist Left Party and the Centre Party expressed their dissent when
According to marine scientists, stocks of Norwegian coastal cod have declined since 1994. After a long process, the Norwegian Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs therefore introduced various protective measures to limit the professional