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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  ...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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, ...

The coalition government of the right-wing Independence Party and the Social Democratic Alliance has come to an end. The Prime Minister met with the President of Iceland at 4 pm today to formally deli...

Iceland’s Prime Minister, Geir H. Haarde, announced today the resignation of the coalition government of the Independence Party and the Social Democratic Alliance. At 16:00 the Prime Minister met with...

Iceland's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir, returns from Stockholm today, where she has been undergoing treatment there for a brain tumour. Doctors at the Karolinska Institut...

23 January 2009 A regular medical examination which I underwent at the National and University Hospital last week revealed a small tumour of the oesophagus. On Tuesday I was informed that a biopsy ha...

Mr. Speaker. I welcome this opportunity for an organised discussion of the economy and employment so soon after parliament has reconvened following its Christmas recess. There is no denying that at t...

The Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Europe and the Middle East, Christopher S. Wilson, and the acting Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade, Össur Skarphéðinsson, today sig...