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Measures to eliminate international terrorism Since this is the first time I take the floor in this committee I would like to congratulate you on your election as Chairman of the Sixth Committ...

Report of the Peacebuilding Commission Mr. President, Let me join others in thanking you for giving us the opportunity to participate in the meeting of the General Assembly devoted to the importan...

Statement by Iceland in the First Committee of the UNGA 9 October 2007 First of all, Mr. Chairman, may I congratulate you on your election as chair of the First Committee. My tributes also go to ...

Central government debt, claims and cash at hand 1994-2008, October 2007 (PDF 292 KB)

Statement by Ambassador Hjálmar W. Hannesson, Permanent Representative of Iceland to the United Nations Sixty-second Session of the United Nations General Assembly Mr. President, The annual report...

An Alliance in Transformation An Ally Transforming Statement by H.E. Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iceland, at the NATO Parliamentarians Political C...

Treasury finances January-August 2007 (PDF 40K) Cash Flow Statement, January – August Millions of krónur   2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Revenue 170 668 ...

The meeting was held under the joint chairmanship of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Polland, Ms. Anna F. Fotya and Holland, Mr. Maxime Verhagen. UN Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, recalled th...

Mr. Speaker, fellow Icelanders The new Government of the Independence Party and Social Democratic Alliance has now been in office for just over four months. The Government?s Policy Statement, which wa...

Statement by H.E. Mrs. Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir Minister for Foreign Affairs of Icelandat the Sixty-second Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations Mr. President, Ladies and Gent...

In support of Iceland's first time candidacy to the UN Security Council for the 2009-2010 period, the Foreign Ministers of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have written to all of their Uni...

The Government’s measures to offset the impact of the adverse effects of the temporary cut in the cod catch quota can at this stage only be outlined in general terms. For this reason, a part of...

The University Symposiums, under the broad theme Iceland in the Wider World: Responsibilities and Opportunities, kicked off with its first event on Friday 7 September in front of a packed audience in ...

Check against delivery   Madame chair, ladies and gentlemen In a little over a year, a vote in the United Nations General Assembly will determine whether Iceland is elected for the first t...

International cooperation in the 21st century and the United Nations Security Council Address by Mrs. Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Minister for Foreign Affairs, University of Iceland 7 September 20...

PRESS RELEASE from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs No. 93/2007 Ms. Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, the Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs decided this June to withdraw the only member of Iceland...

The Minister of Finance has decided to assign issuance of domestic marketable securities, currently handled by the National Debt Management Agency (NDMA), to the Central Bank of Iceland, which already...

Treasury finances January-July 2007 (PDF 53K) Cash Flow Statement, January – July Millions of krónur   2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Revenue 147 465 15...

During her visit to the Middle East earlier this month, Minister Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir visited Jordan where she discussed the situation of Iraqi refugees in the country. Minister Gisladottir ha...

Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir, Foreign Minister of Iceland, returned recently from an eight-day working visit to the Middle East, where she visited Israel, the Palestinian Territories and Jordan. The a...