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Icesave dispute to the EFTA Court
EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA) has today announced in a press statment that it will refer to the EFTA Court a dispute regarding the alleged breach of Iceland of the Deposit Guarantee Directive in r...
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Foreign minister meets with Palestinian counterpart Dr. Riad Malki
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Össur Skarphéðinsson, met today with Dr. Riad Malki, the Palestinian Foreign Minister. At the meeting the ministers discussed relations between Iceland and Palestine and ...
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Treasury finances for January - October 2011
Statistics for Treasury finances for January - October 2011 are available now Read more here
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Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs visits Iceland
Dr. Riad Malki, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Palestine, will visit Iceland on 14-16 December 2011 on the invitation of Foreign Minister Össur Skarphéðinsson. During the visit Foreign Minister Malki ...
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Quarter of the chapters closed in Iceland's Accession negotiations with the EU
The third meeting of the Accession Conference between Iceland and the EU at Ministerial level took place earlier today in Brussels. The Icelandic delegation was led by Foreign Minister Össur Skarphéði...
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Icelandic and Chinese leaders hail 40 years of diplomatic relations
The presidents of Iceland and China and the foreign Ministers of both countries exchanged congratulatory messages Thursday, December 8, to mark the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ...
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Cooperation with the Icelandic Red Cross
The 31st International Conference of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent was held between 28 November and 1 December 2011 in Geneva. The conference convened under the banner "Our World. Your move...
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18th OSCE Ministerial Council held in Vilnius
The 18th Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) was held in Vilnius, Lithuania on 6-7 December 2011. The Foreign Ministers of the OSCE Member States agr...
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Palestinian appreciation for Iceland´s initiative
Foreign Minister Össur Skarphéðinsson has received a letter from Dr. Riad Malki, Foreign Minister of Palestine, where Minister Malki expresses his appreciation to Minister Skarphéðinsson and to the Al...
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Iceland and Russia: communication cable, adoption, the Arctic and geothermal energy
Foreign Minister Össur Skarphéðinsson met yesterday with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in Moscow. The meeting was a part of the Foreign Minister's official visit to the Russian Federation. H...
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Decision on a Request to Purchase Land
Act No. 19/1966, on the Right of Ownership and Use of Real Property, as subsequently amended, addresses in some detail the authorisation to obtain a right to ownership and use of real property in Icel...
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Iceland honors the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
On 2 March 2010, The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution by which it proclaimed the period 2011-2020 as the Decade of Action for Road Safety, with the goal to stabilize and reduce the level of ro...
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Meeting with Ireland's European Minister
Today, Foreign Minister Össur Skarphéðinsson met with Ms. Lucinda Creighton, Minister of State With Special Responsibility for European Affairs in Ireland. The Ministers discussed measures the Europea...
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Statistics for Treasury finances January - September 2011
Statistics for Treasury finances in January -August 2011 are available now. Treasury finances January-September 2011 (PDF 43 KB)
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Foreign Minister meets Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation
The Icelandic Foreign Minister, Mr Össur Skarphéðinsson, met last Tuesday with Mr Alexander Grushko, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation in Reykjavík. The two ministers discussed the rel...
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Foreign Minister signs an agreement with the United Nations University on the UNU Geothermal Training Programme
Foreign Minister Össur Skarphéðinsson, Dr. Konrad Osterwalder, Rector of the United Nations University (UNU) and Dr. Guðni A. Jóhannesson, Director General of the National Energy Authority today signe...
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Nordic countries concerned about measures against Palestinians
The five Nordic foreign ministers discussed the situation in the Middle East today, focusing particularly on relations between Israel and the Palestinians in the wake of this week's vote in UNESCO. Al...
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Denmark supports Iceland's EU aspirations
Össur Skarphéðinsson Minister of Foreign Affairs in Iceland and Villy Søvndal the newly appointed Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs, along with Denmark's new Minister for European Affairs, Nikolai Wa...
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The Prime Minister and Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the Prime Minister of Denmark met in Copenhagen today
The Prime Ministers discussed the accession negotiations between Iceland and the European Union, as Denmark is the upcoming presidency for the first half of 2012. A special provision in the coalition ...
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Order of priority claims under the Emergency Act deemed valid
The Supreme Court of Iceland today ruled in a case concerning the Emergency Act of October 6th 2008. The ruling entails that the law and associated acts stands undisputed. Since the Supreme Court is a...