Students from American University explore Arctic Norway

Last updated: 9/2/2009 //

Alex Thorp and Noah Chutz were awarded a trip to Norway as the winners of an essay contest sponsored by AU and the Royal Norwegian Embassy. Read their blog here.

Conditions for the return of Mullah Krekar to Iraq remain unchanged

Last updated: 9/2/2009 //

Observations by the Norwegian Government in respect of the programme “The Wanted” on NBC.

Foreign Minister Støre visits Iraq: Norway establishes embassy office in Baghdad

Last updated: 9/2/2009 //

Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre is visiting Baghdad on Monday June 29. He will have meetings with Iraq’s Foreign Minister Hosiyar Zebari, Minister for Human Rights Wijdan Michel Salim and representatives of NGOs and the UN. “I have hoped to be able to visit Iraq for quite some time, and I am pleased the opportunity has now come,” said Foreign Minister Støre.

Carbon capture and storage – a part of the solution

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will be hosting the High-Level Conference on Climate Change and Technology in Bergen on May 27-28, 2009. The agenda will focus on carbon capture and storage (CCS), a technology that could prove crucial if the world is to achieve necessary cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions.

Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre met with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre met with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in Washington , D.C. on April 6.

Yehuda Bauer awarded the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit

Last updated: 9/2/2009 //

Professor Yehuda Bauer, Israel ,was awarded the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit by His Majesty King Harald the Fifth during his recent visit to Oslo in connection with the meeting of the Holocaust Task Force (ITF) under Norwegian chairmanship.

Bill Gates in Oslo: Norway has become our best partner

Last updated: 9/2/2009 //

Norway is cooperating with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide the world’s children with life-saving vaccinations.

New initiative against malaria

Norway is working with major international health organisations in a new initiative in the fight against malaria. USD 225 million is to be invested in providing better and cheaper medicines to the world’s poor.

Norwegian Chairmanship of the Holocaust Task Force

Norway has assumed chairmanship of the Holocaust Task Force, and is approaching the task with humility: “We all have a duty to prevent anti-Semitism from ever regaining a foothold, either here or in any other country,” commented Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.

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