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06.02.2003
Pressemelding
Finansdepartementet
The head of the Tax Committee, Mr.
Arne Skauge, today presented the Committee’s proposal to the
Minister of Finance, Mr. Per-Kristian Foss. The Committee proposes
that tax reductions of NOK 10 billion should be used for reducing
the tax on
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08.10.2003
Pressemelding
Utenriksdepartementet
Press release No.: 168/03 Date: 08.10.2003 Government Budget The Foreign Ministry’s Budget for 2004 Humanitarian assistance and peace efforts The Government submitted a budget to the Storting today proposing that allocations for humanitarian
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11.11.2002
Pressemelding
Utenriksdepartementet
Press release No.: 192/2002 Date: 08 November 2002 Foreign Minister Petersen expresses satisfaction with the Security Council’s Iraq resolution The Security Council unanimously adopted a new resolution on Iraq today. "I am pleased that the Security
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04.03.2002
Pressemelding
Utenriksdepartementet
"The humanitarian challenges are at
the top of our list and must be met if we are to succeed in
building a better future for Afghanistan.", said State Secretary
Vidar Helgesen (Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) at the
opening of today’s
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14.02.2003
Pressemelding
Landbruksdepartementet
The drastic cuts in tariffs and
domestic support proposed by Chairman Stuart Harbinson will
effectively wipe out Norwegian agriculture, with devastating
effects on our rural communities, agricultural landscapes and
bio-diversity, as well as the
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03.01.2003
Pressemelding
Statsministerens kontor
Press release No.: 3/2003 Date: 3 January 2003 Prime Ministers of Norway and Russia to open new Russian border post As an introduction to the celebrations marking the 10 th> anniversary of the Barents Euro-Arctic Cooperation, in Kirkenes in Northern
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08.10.2003
Pressemelding
Forsvarsdepartementet
Today the Government proposed a
defence budget for 2004 amounting to NOK 29.4 billion. This
represents the same budget level as the 2003 budget. The Government
is thus, in their third year in office, advancing on a continuing
high budget level
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27.06.2002
Pressemelding
Miljøverndepartementet
The Norwegian
government decided today that the Svalbard Environmental Protection
Act shall enter into force July 1 2002. For the first time, all
environmental regulation for one area is collected in one act. This
makes a better survey of
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25.01.2002
Pressemelding
Utenriksdepartementet
Ms. Johnson will participate in a
joint Norwegian-French seminar on HIV/AIDS and security issues in
Paris on 25 January
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20.09.2002
Pressemelding
Miljøverndepartementet
The Norwegian Government today
submitted a proposal for a new Act on the Right to Environmental
Information. It provides all citizens with a legal
right to obtain environmental information, both from public
authorities and from public and
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15.10.2002
Pressemelding
Statsministerens kontor
Press release No.: 163/2002 Date: 15 October 2002 Norwegian Prime Minister offers condolences to Indonesia and Australia Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik of Norway has yesterday and today sent letters of condolences to President Megawati
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12.02.2002
Pressemelding
Finansdepartementet
Press release No.: 40/2001 Date: 26.04.01 Contacts: Nina Bjerkedal, phone + 47 22 24 45 07/Stig Sollund, phone +47 22 24 44 74 PROPOSAL FOR PETROLEUM TAXATION AMENDMENT The Ministry of Finance will tomorrow, Friday, present a proposal on amendments
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02.01.2002
Pressemelding
Statsministerens kontor
Press release No.: 3/2002 Date: 2 January 2002 Political advisors following ministry changes on 1 January 2002 Following ministry changes effective as of 1 January 2002, the list of political advisors in the ministries looks as below. The Government
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23.04.2002
Pressemelding
Utenriksdepartementet
Foreign Minister Jan Petersen has
invited the most important donor countries that are providing
development assistance to the Palestinian Territory to a meeting in
Oslo on 25 April to discuss how the international community can
best help the
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18.06.2002
Pressemelding
Landbruksdepartementet
Press release for NTC-IV Ministerial Meeting Rome, 14 th> June 2002 Further commitments in the WTO need to address non-trade concerns The Doha Ministerial Declaration includes the provision that non-trade concerns will be duly covered in the WTO
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31.05.2002
Pressemelding
Utenriksdepartementet
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was
informed in December 2000 that the World Bank Consultant Trust
Funds (CTFs) of six countries had been used in a way that was not
consistent with the provisions of the trust fund agreement.
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14.09.2001
Pressemelding
Forsvarsdepartementet
Some news media have indicated that
Norway will be reluctant to provide support to the United States in
accordance with Article 5 in the NATO-treaty. In that connection
the Norwegian Minister of Defence, Mr Bjørn Tore Godal, gives the
following
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19.10.2001
Pressemelding
Olje- og energidepartementet
Press release No.: 129/01 Date: 19.10.2001 Contact:Sissel Edvardsen, +47 22 24 61 09 Einar Steensnaes appointed Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy A new Norwegian government has today been formed by the Conservative Party, the Christian
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06.06.2001
Pressemelding
Utenriksdepartementet
The President of Sri Lanka, Ms.
Chandrika Kumaratunga, has requested Foreign Minister Thorbjørn
Jagland to come to Colombo on Thursdag 7 June to review the peace
process in Sri Lanka.
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14.12.2001
Pressemelding
Miljøverndepartementet
Mr Børge Brende, Norwegian minister
of the environment, will next week visit the nuclear recovery plant
at Sellafield and have talks with his Irish and British colleagues.
In London the minister will be accompanied by the state secretary
at the