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Iceland‘s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Össur Skarphéðinsson, strongly condemns Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Gaza and the Hamas rocket attacks on Israeli civilians. The Minister regrets all loss...

Iceland's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Össur Skarphéðinsson and Inga Dóra Pétursdóttir,  Executive Director of the National Committee of UN Women in Iceland, signed today an agreement on continu...

Magnús Jóhannesson was appointed as the first Director of the Arctic Council's Secretariat, at today's meeting of Senior Arctic Officials in Haparanda, Sweden. The Council's Secretariat is to be set u...

Iceland signed today a tax information exchange agreement (TIEA) with Panama. Iceland has now concluded 39 TIEAs with former secrecy jurisdictions having a financial centre attracting non-resident act...

Össur Skarphéðinsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland, presented today the most extensive development project Iceland has participated in. It includes the development of  a Global Geother...

The Prime Minister of Iceland has sent a letter to the re-elected President of the United States, Barack Obama, in light of the results in the presidential elections in the United States yesterday.
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Statistics for Treasury finances for January-September 2012 are available now. Treasury finances January-September 2012

Foreign Minister Össur Skarphéðinsson writes: We Icelanders do not always realise the value of the co-operation between the five Nordic States. It is the main reason why Iceland, just like the other...

Sweden and Finland confirmed during the meeting of Nordic Foreign Ministers in Helsinki today their readiness to take part in air surveillance in Iceland in 2014. The participation of Sweden and Finla...

Today Mr. Steingrímur J. Sigfússon, Minister of Industries and Innovation in Iceland and Mr. Johan Dahl, Minister of Trade and Industry in the Faroe Islands, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)...

Voters on the electoral register: 236,911 Valid votes cast: 114,570 Spoiled papers: 1,499 including blank ballot papers: 661 including other disqualified ballots:   838 ...

The Nordic Prime Ministers held their meeting today in Helsinki, Finland, and met with the self-governing regions of the Nordic counties. The Nordic Prime Ministers discussed co-operation in the Arcti...

The Prime Minister is today participating in the meeting of Nordic and Baltic States‘ Prime Ministers in Helsinki.  The agenda for the meeting includes discussions on the economic situation in Eu...

The announcement by the National Electoral Commission follows below. Counting of votes in the referendum held on 20 October 2012 on the proposals by the Constitutional Council for a draft Constitutio...

The meeting between the Coastal States of Iceland, Norway, the Faroe Islands and the EU in London on the management of mackerel fisheries was inconclusive. The Icelandic delegation was lead by chief n...

Össur Skarphéðinsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland, met today with Vladimir Titov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. The Ministers discussed cooperation between ...

Negotiations on three chapters were launched this morning in Iceland's accession talks with the European Union at an Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) in Brussels. The chapters opened are on Financia...

Iceland has received a confirmation from the EU Council Presidency, Cyprus, that EU considers Iceland prepared for negotiations on Chapter 3, Right of establishment and Freedom to provide services and...

ESMAP, the World Bank‘s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program, has published a Geothermal Handbook, a comprehensive guide to planning and financing geothermal projects. The primary authors of th...

A two-day international conference,  Nordic Africa Days, opened today, 18 October in Reykjavík. The conference is held by the Nordic Africa Institute and the University of Iceland, with support f...