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A four day exercise were the Arctic Council agreement  on Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue in the Arctic will be implemented in a live exercise in and around the coast of East Green...

Minister for Foreign Affairs Össur Skarphéðinsson gave the opening address at a three day Conference of Arctic Parliamentarians (CPAR) in Akureyri on Wednesday. In his speech the minister called for g...

Statistics for Treasury finances for January-July 2012 are available now. Treasury finances January-July 2012  

Following the meeting of coastal states taking part in negotiations in London this past Monday, on division of the mackerel stock, there is every reason to take a closer look at the issue and explain ...

The Minister for Foreign Affairs met today with US Senator Ms. Lisa Murkowski from the State of Alaska. They discussed Arctic Affairs, renewable energy and issues pertaining to civilian and envir...

Common conclusions of the parties: 1)   The discussions on a quota sharing agreement were inconclusive. The respective positions remain too far apart. 2)   All parties agree that...

Press relese no. 9/2012 The Treasury accounts for 2011 have now been published. The balance for revenue and expenditure shows that the goals of restraint in fiscal finances have been achieved. The e...

The Government of Iceland fully supports efforts to strengthen the international response to the Syrian crisis. A draft resolution to this effect has been proposed by the United Kingdom, the United St...

Statistics for Treasury finances for January-April 2012 are available now. Treasury finances January-May 2012

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

On June 20, Mr. Einar Gunnarsson, Permanent Secretary of State, met with the Ukrainian Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Mr. Pavlo Klimkin. During the meeting they discussed bilateral relations betw...

The Government of Iceland has submitted its Reply to the Statement in Intervention of the European Commission in the Icesave case to the EFTA Court. This marks the end of the written part of the pr...

This week, the Treasury of Iceland and the Central Bank of Iceland will make repayments in the amount of 171 b.kr. on loans taken from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Nordic countries in...

Statistics for Treasury finances for January-April 2012 are available now. Treasury finances January-April 2012 (PDF 150 KB)

  My Fellow Icelanders, Today we join together in celebrating our national day, an important anniversary in the life of our country. It has been a great pleasure to sense the change of seaso...

The slogan for the congress is Via Nordica – At a Crossroads. It brings into focus the challenges we face today, not least in the field of road transport and the environment, and our need to make some...

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Össur Skarphéðinsson, strongly condemns atrocities committed by Syrian authorities as well as armed militias linked to the Syrian Government. There is little doubt th...

Statistics for Treasury finances for January-March 2012 are available now.  Treasury finances January-March 2012 (PDF 150 KB)

The objective of the Investment Plan for Iceland (2013-2015) is to strengthen economic growth and diversity in the economy. This plan is a part of the recovery plan launched in the wake of the economi...

Yesterday, the time-limit for third parties to submit written observations in the Icesave-case expired. The governments of four states that are parties to the EEA Agreement submitted their observation...