Bill Gates in Oslo: Norway has become our best partner

6/29/2009 :: 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. + More

6/9/2009 :: The Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute for the Peace Prize in Oslo, Mr. Geir Lundestad, visits San Francisco September 19 - 20 in connection with the Nobel Exhibition. Mr. Lundestad will give presentations at the Stanford University Nobel Day September 19 and at the Commonwealth Club September 20. + More

5/19/2009 :: 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. + More

5/14/2009 :: The New York Times writes about Norway’s response to the financial crisis and the Norwegian Government Pension Fund, one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds, ability to buck the tide. + More