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The Prime Minister and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, together with the project management team of the principal reduction actions, today announced the outcome of the government's Debt...

The Prime Minister and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, together with the project management team of the principal reduction actions, today announced the outcome of the government's Debt ...

Statistics for Treasury finances for January - September 2014 are now available. Treasury finances January-September 2014

Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland, has appointed Stefán Haukur Jóhannesson as Permanent Secretary of State, from 1 November. Einar Gunnarsson, who has served in the posit...

Annual consultations between the Coastal States on the management of the mackerel stock in the North-East Atlantic were held in London on 21-23 October 2014. The scientific advice from ICES on t...

The first meeting of the Financial Stability Council was held in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs on Wednesday, 10 September 2014. The Financial Stability Council is the authorities' offic...

An international conference on Gender Equality in the Arctic will be held in Akureyri, Iceland 30-31 October 2014. The conference will broadly focus on the living condition of women and men thr...

Iceland supports international measures which aim at defeating the terrorist organisation ISIS. Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs, says that robust action is needed to end the crue...

Over 130 Honorary Consuls of Iceland from 57 countries are attending a consular conference in Reykjavik, hosted by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Iceland. The purpose of the conference is to st...

During his UN General Assembly address earlier this week, Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson announced the Barbershop Conference in January 2015, an initiative that Iceland has taken with Surina...

Today Mr. Tomas Heidar took office as Judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Hamburg and made a solemn declaration at a public ceremony. Judge Heidar was elected to serv...

Statistics for Treasury finances for January - August 2014 are now available. Treasury finances January-August 2014

Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson addressed the UN General Assembly yesterday. In his speech he stressed the need for the international community to continue its fight against poverty and ineq...

Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson participated in a meeting of the Nordic-Baltic Foreign Ministers in Tallinn today. The security situation in Europe was the main focus of the discussion among ...

Iceland reinforces its participation in NATO5.9. 2014The NATO Summit in Newport, Wales, concluded this afternoon. Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson and Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsso...

The first meeting of the Financial Stability Council was held in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs on Wednesday, 10 September 2014. The Financial Stability Council is the authorities' offic...

Iceland reinforces its participation in NATO5.9. 2014The NATO Summit in Newport, Wales, concluded this afternoon. Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson and Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsso...

The Arctic Economic Council was formally established at its founding meeting September 2-3 in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada. Representatives from the business sectors of all eight Arctic Council States a...

The NATO summit commenced today in Wales, Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson and Foreign Minster Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson attend the meeting. The situation in Ukraine is on the agenda and ...

At the annual meeting of the Hoyvik Council, held in Reykjavik today, Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson and Kaj Leo Johannesen, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands, discussed the operation of th...