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Foreign Minister condemns Israeli attacks on Gaza
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...
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Minister signs cooperation agreement with UN Women National Committee
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...
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Magnús Jóhannesson appointed as the first Director of the Arctic Council
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...
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Tax information exchange agreement with Panama
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...
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Iceland is key partner in extensive development project on geothermal energy
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...
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Congratulation to Obama on his re-election
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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Treasury finances January-September 2012
Statistics for Treasury finances for January-September 2012 are available now. Treasury finances January-September 2012
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Air surveillance and Nordic solidarity
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...
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Sweden and Finland confirm readiness to take part in air surveillance
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...
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Memorandum of Understanding on energy cooperation.
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)...
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Advertisement of the results of the referendum on 20 October 2012
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 ...
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Prime Minister meeting with Nordic Prime Ministers in Helsinki, and attending the 64th session of the Nordic Council.
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...
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Prime Minister attends Nordic meetings in Helsinki, Finland
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...
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Outcome of the counting of votes cast in the referendum on 20 October 2012.
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...
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Iceland Statements Regarding Coastal States Negotiations on Sustainable Fishing of Mackerel
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...
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Minister Skarphéðinsson receives Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Titov
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 ...
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2/3rd of negotiating chapters opened
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...
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EU prepared for negotiations on Chapters 3 and 4
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...
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Iceland supports World Bank publication on handbook on geothermal energy
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...
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North Africa Days
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...