Tag: Norway

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2008-10-29 it was too early to say when NATO would be able to decide on membership for Georgia, but said an "intensified dialogue" had begun. Georgia needs to carry out reforms before it can join NATO.
-- According to Jens Stoltenberg, Norwegian Prime Minister, news conference in Oslo
2008-01-24 "They don't like us, but they need our money."
-- Kristin Halvorsen, Finance Minister of Norway, which has a $300 billion fund, in panel of World Economic Forum, Davos
2008-01-14 In Kabul, Afghanistan, at least six people were killed and several injured in a Taliban militant attack on the main luxury hotel in Kabul.
Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere was inside but stayed unharmed in the attack
2008-01-02 In Sri Lanka, the government formally withdrew from the Cease Fire Agreement with Tamil Tiger rebels because escalating violence had made the Norwegian-brokered truce redundant.
2007-12-17 Ninety international delegations from Israel, Palestine, United States, EU, Russia, Britain, Germany, France, Norway, Sweden, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, United Nations, and other world's powers are attended the one-day Conference of Donors for a Palestinian State in Paris to mobilize political support and to agree on an aid package worth billions of dollars to stabilise the Palestinian economy and give political impetus to the newly relaunched peace process with Israel.

Global donors pledge 7.4 bln US dollars for Palestinians.
2007-11-23 "The plans to build a floating installation are, in our opinion, in conflict with international regulations. There is no doubt that the development of Stockman, and StatoilHydro's participation there, gives increased input for the development of floating nuclear power. This is the last thing we want in the Barents Sea.
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If we know one thing about the region, it is that there are enough nuclear problems already. This applies particularly to the waste problem, which is out of control."
-- Fredric Hauge, leader of Belona, an environmental group in Norway
2007-10-12 The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
2007-08-18 14 Russian jet bombers carried out strategic exersices in international airspace off the Norwegian coast.
- It is the first time since the end of the cold war that the Russian military activity in the North has been at this high a level.
-- Per Egil Rygg, Bodoe Wing Commander
2007-04-19 The Norwegian Government has announced that it has agreed to cancel the Republic of Malawi’s remaining NOK 3.8 million debt to Norway
2006-11-23 According to the Economist: Twenty-eight countries including the US, Britain, Norway, Denmark and Portugal are listed as 'full democracies'

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