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 You will also find outdated current affairs from the sitting government. In addition the archive contains documents where the content is no longer valid, such as expired circulars.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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Norway condemns the attempts by militant extremists to overthrow Somalia’s legitimate transitional Government by armed force.
“We were very concerned to learn that the Congolese human rights defender Floribert Chebeya Bahizire has been killed,” said State Secretary Gry Larsen at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In a period of turmoil and uncertainty Norway’s oil- and gas revenues have enabled actions to limit the effects on employment, trade and industry. .
In the National Budget of 2010, the Norwegian Government proposes to allocate approximately NOK 3.4 billion toward`s CCS.
Norway will provide NOK 40 million (USD 7 million) to UN efforts to combat female genital mutilation and violence against women in developing countries. At the same time, Norway will contribute NOK 20 million (USD 3.5 million) to the new UN Fund for
November 25 Norway hosted the Northern Dimension Partnership in Public Health and Social Well-being’s Annual Conference. At the conference, Russia formally took over the chairmanship of the Partnership from Norway.
On 25 August 2009 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to allocate NOK 1.6 million spread over three years to a project at Bodø University College. The purpose of the project is to increase knowledge about the Northeast Arctic cod stock.
Norway has decided to increase emergency relief to Kenya, Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia because of the drought. At the same time it is important to increase food security.
The Holberg International Memorial Prize for 2009 for outstanding scholarly work in the arts and humanities, social sciences, law and theology is awarded to Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and Collège de France Ian Hacking.
The performance of the Norwegian Economy continues to be strong for the fourth year running, fuelled by low interest rates and strong growth in petroleum investment.
All trial municipalities have participated or will participate in testing the e-election solution by carrying out electronic elections for youth councils or advisory referendums before the summer. The electronic ballots in the municipalities
The Food Chain Committee's power analysis, “Food, power and impotence - on the relative strengths in the food value chain,” shows that over time, the major food retail chains have increased their power relative to the other links in the value chain.
The Petroleum Price Board has set final norm prices for offshore-loaded Norwegian crude oil (21.04.2006)
For the past two days Norway and the Ministry of Transport and Communication have been host to 77 international delegates from the EU and USA in connection with talks on Trans-Atlantic civil aviation.
“We want to learn from the experience we have gained from the peace process in Sri Lanka,” said Minister of the Environment and International Development Erik Solheim. He was at the launch of the first evaluation of Norway’s peace efforts.
The Norwegian Government will provide NOK 30 million for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
The Holberg International Memorial Prize of 2011 is awarded to Professor of History, Jürgen Kocka. He is a historian of modern Germany and Europe and he is particularly interested in comparative approaches, social history and cooperation with the
The Office of the Prime Minister has for the period 30 May-15 September 2011 appointed Ms. Signe Brudeset (43), international secretary, Oslo, as political adviser to Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre.