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Treasury finances January-December 2008 (PDF 53K) Cash Flow Statement in January–December 2004–2008   Millions of krónur 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Revenue ...

On 29 January 2009, NATO and the Government of Iceland jointly organized a seminar in Reykjavik to discuss the challenges facing the Allies in the High North. The participants agreed that the conf...

Iceland's Third Periodic Report on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, June 2008.

The Icelandic delegation to the Organizsation for Security and co-operation in Europe, OSCE, in Vienna has invited the organization to observe the early, parliamentary elections, planned for this spri...

Iceland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Össur Skarphedinsson, met with the Foreign Minister of Albania, Lulzim Basha, on February 12 during his visit to Iceland to discuss NATO’s enlargeme...

Össur Skarphéðinsson, the Icelandic Foreign Minister, talked about the Icelandic economy, European issues and fisheries with David Frost on the television station Al Jazeera last week. The Foreign Mi...

The Coordination Committee which has the overall responsibility of developing, implementing and communicating a comprehensive strategy for bank restructuring published its first report today at a pres...

A cabinet meeting this morning dealt with questions concerning the reconstruction of the financial system and endorsed a work programme for the Co-ordination Committee appointed to work on this task p...

Össur Skarphéðinsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs today received, on behalf of his Nordic colleagues, a report by Thorvald Stoltenberg, former Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence of Norway, on N...

Meeting of the Executive Board of The United Nations Children´s Fund The United Nations, New York 5 February 2009 Statement by the Permanent Representative of Iceland Dr. Gunnar Pálsson  ...

136th Legislative session of the Althingi, 4 February 2009, 7:50 pm Mr Speaker, fellow Icelanders. It can have escaped no one that our country is passing through a deep economic downturn. Within a v...

Today, 6 February, Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir introduced a bill of legislation in the Icelandic parliament Althingi amending the Act on the Central Bank of Iceland. The amendments would rep...

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A new Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Ossur Skarphedinsson, took office yesterday, replacing Mrs. Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, who had held the position since 24 May 2007. Minister Skarphedinsson w...

Kristján Guy Burgess has been appointed political advisor to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Ossur Skarphedinsson. Mr. Burgess has a masters' degree in international politics and internation...

Overview of Icelandic film, music and literature in Berlin, Germany. Read the newsletter from the Icelandic Embassy in Berlin, Germany (in German).

A Government of the Social Democratic Alliance and the Left-Green Movement takes office today. It aims to assure an effective administration to carry out urgent measures, particularly for the benefit ...

The Treasury’s debt position has been under intense discussion in recent days as well as the changes that have taken place since the collapse of the banks in October 2008. The Ministry of Finan...

The Government of Iceland is organising, jointly with NATO, a seminar in Reykjavík on 29 January 2009 on “Security Prospects in the High North”. The aim of the seminar is to bring together ministers, ...