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The Ministry for Foreign Affairs has opened a new portal at www.iceland.org for the Icelandic Foreign Service’s websites. Furthermore, www.iceland.is - a general information site on Iceland, its natur...

Statement by Mr. Harald Aspelund Deputy Permanent Representative of Iceland to the United Nations at the    Fifty-ninth Session of the United Nations General Assembly   Agenda ...

Statement by Ambassador Hjálmar W. Hannesson Permanent Representative of Iceland to the United Nations High-level segment of the International Meeting for the 10-year Review...

Summary The Government of Iceland has allocated a total of 150 million Icelandic krona (2.5 million USD) for humanitarian and reconstruction assistance for victims of the tsunami. Non-government assi...

Treasury finances January - November 2004 (PDF 105K)

Nr. 13 22. apríl 2003 AUGLÝSING um samning við Litháen um eflingu og gagnkvæma vernd fjárfestinga. Samningur milli lýðveldisins Íslands og lýðveldisins Litháens um eflingu og gagnkvæma vernd fjárf...

This paper describes the principal tax rates applicable to individuals and companies as they stand at the beginning of 2005 as well as tax rate changes as they have already been passed into law for su...

  At the end of the year   At this turning point we look back and try to some extent to settle accounts for the past year. But there are no universal accounting principles to rely on and ...

Treasury finances January - October 2004 (PDF 105K)

Statement by Ambassador Hjálmar W. Hannesson Permanent Representative of Iceland to the United Nations The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and secur...

Statement by Ambassador Sveinn Björnsson, Permanent Representative of Iceland to the OSCE, OSCE Ministerial Council in Sofia 2004. Mr. Chairman, On behalf of David Oddsson, Minister for Foreign A...

An English translation of a joint news release from the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance November 19th 2004 Personal income tax will be cut, net wealth tax abolished and child benefit paym...

The Government has decided to present a bill to the Althingi that proposes a 4 per cent reduction in the personal income tax, the abolition of the net wealth tax on individuals and companies, and an i...

Colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, Good morning. It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to Reykjavík on the occasion of this Fourth Meeting of the Arctic Council in Ministerial session. Bef...

Statement by Ambassador Hjálmar W. Hannesson Permanent Representative of Iceland to the United Nations Items 45 and 55 Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up t...

Statement by Ambassador Hjálmar W. Hannesson Permanent Representative of Iceland to the United Nations 59th Session of the General Assembly Agenda item 49 (a) and (b) Oceans and the Law of the ...

Mr. Chairman Iceland, as a member of the European Economic Area (the EEA), aligned itself with the statement made yesterday by our colleague form the Netherlands on behalf of the European Union. Let ...

Statement by Ambassador Hjálmar W. Hannesson Permanent Representative of Iceland to the United Nations at the Second Committee of the Fifty-ninth Session of the United Nations General Assembly ...

Mr. Speaker In recent years, Iceland?s participation in international consultation and co-operation has been strengthened. This is partly a result of international trends, but there are other reasons...

Hydrogen use in an international context Introduction by Ambassador Gunnar Pálsson Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Iceland A...