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01/04/2009
Speech/statement
Office of the Prime Minister
Check against delivery Thank you, Your Royal Highness. Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your Royal Highness, I would like to thank you for so
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01/04/2009
Speech/statement
Ministry of Health and Care Services
Good afternoon and welcome to this meeting on health in times of a global economic crisis. It is very nice to see so many health ministers and senior government officials here today. We are living through a time of global economic crisis. And we are
By
Minister of Health and Care Services Bjarne Håkon Hanssen
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01/04/2009
Press release
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The US has decided to put forward its candidacy for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council in the elections to be held in the UN General Assembly in May 2009. Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre welcomes the news of the US candidacy and the country’s
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Image archive
Ministry of Petroleum and Energy
Press photos of the State Secretary Sigrid Hjørnegård
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Image archive
Ministry of Petroleum and Energy
Press photos of the State Secretary Robin Martin Kåss
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01/04/2009
Press release
Office of the Prime Minister
Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has sent a letter to congratulate Helen Clark on her appointment as Administrator of the UNDP and Chair of the United Nations Development Group.
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31/03/2009
Speech/statement
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
This unique and broad gathering sends a strong signal of the international commitment to security and development in Afghanistan. We need to strengthen regional cooperation not only in words, but also in deeds, Foreign Minister Støre said in his
By
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre
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31/03/2009
Plans/strategy
Barne- og familiedepartementet
The Ministry of Children and Equality has, since the mid-nineties, worked systematically to recruit more men to work in kindergartens. Norway is on the forefront of this work, devoting both expert and political energy to this topic. Kindergartens
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31/03/2009
News story
Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs
Statsbygg - Public Construction and Property, Norway - has been instructed by the Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs to initiate the planning of a new, collective building complex to house the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design on
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30/03/2009
Speech/statement
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Sustainable peace requires respect for the rule of law and the international legal order. Therefore my Government has emphasised the need to ensure full compliance with the decisions and requests of the Security Council in accordance with the
By
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre
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28/03/2009
Speech/statement
Office of the Prime Minister
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's speech at the Progressive Governance Summit.
By
Former Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg
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28/03/2009
Press release
Ministry of Finance
The Norwegian Minister of Finance Kristin Halvorsen Friday sent a letter to the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) offering to make additional financial resources available to the Fund.
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28/03/2009
Letter
Ministry of Finance
Letter to the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) offering to make additional financial resources available to the Fund.
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27/03/2009
Press release
Office of the Prime Minister
Minister of Justice and the Police Knut Storberget will from 30 March be back in office after his sick leave since 27 February.
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27/03/2009
News story
Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Svalbard Global Seed Vault: The Norwegian construction company Leonhard Nilsen & Sønner, that built Svalbard Global Seed Vault, recently received the prize for best Construction 2008 during "Byggedagene" in Oslo, Norway.
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27/03/2009
Speech/statement
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
In the past few years there have been calls from many quarters to break off contact with regimes we don’t like. But boycotts just make things worse.
By
Former Minister of the Environment and International Development Erik Solheim
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27/03/2009
Press release
Office of the Prime Minister
The Office of the Prime Minister has from 27 March appointed Mr. Tord Dale (30), nurse, Sogndal, as political advisor to Minister of Children and Equality Anniken Huitfeldt. He succeeds Ms. Lotte Grepp Knutsen who today has been appointed state
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27/03/2009
Press release
Office of the Prime Minister
In today’s session of the Council of State Ms. Sigrid Hjørnegård, politcial advisor, has been appointed state secretary to Minister of Petroleum and Energy Terje Riis-Johansen, and Ms. Lotte Grepp Knutsen, political advisor, as state secretary to
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26/03/2009
News story
Ministry of Education and Research
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2009 to the Russian-French mathematician Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (65) for “his revolutionary contributions to geometry”.
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26/03/2009
News story
Ministry of the Environment
The Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority has just published a report on a hypothetical accident at Sellafield in England, which concludes that if only 1% of the liquid radioactive waste stored at the plant is released to air, the radioactive