Bill Gates in Oslo: Norway has become our best partner

02/09/2009 //

Norway is cooperating with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide the world’s children with life-saving vaccinations.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will be hosting the High-Level Conference on Climate Change and Technology in Bergen on 27-28 May 2009. The agenda will focus on carbon capture and storage (CCS), a technology that could prove crucial if the world is to achieve necessary cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions.

Organized by the United Nations, the Durban Review Conference being held in Geneva is intended to review the steps that have been taken to combat racism and discrimination since the 2001 World Conference Against Racism held in Durban, South Africa. At the inaugural panel discussion on 20 April 2009, Mr. Jonas Gahr Støre, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Norway delivered an address. Below ...

Jagland arrives for a one-day visit to Slovakia

His candidacy for the position of Secretary General of the Council of Europe was in the focus of Thorbjørn Jagland’s visit to Slovakia .

Landmark treaty to ban cluster munition signed in Oslo

Ninety two states signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions - which bans the production, stockpiling, use and export of cluster bombs during a ceremony in Oslo on December 3. Russia, China and Slovakia have refused to sign, Amnesty International reported.

Norway is working with major international health organisations in a new initiative in the fight against malaria. USD 225 million is to be invested in providing better and cheaper medicines to the world’s poor.

Norwegian Chairmanship of the Holocaust Task Force

Norway has assumed chairmanship of the Holocaust Task Force, and is approaching the task with humility: “We all have a duty to prevent anti-Semitism from ever regaining a foothold, either here or in any other country,” commented Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.

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He does not mince his words and calls things by their right names. He considers the fight for the environment as the most important item on his agenda. He believes that results can only be achieved through global co-operation. Erik Solheim, Minister of the Environment of the Kingdom of Norway, was interviewed by Martin Kóňa for the Hospodárske noviny newspaper.

State Secretary Elisabeth Walaas visits Slovakia

State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic Oľga Algayerová received on November 21, 2008 State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway Elisabeth Walaas.

Bill Gates in Oslo: Norway has become our best partner

Carbon capture and storage - a part of the solution

Støre: Monologue takes us nowhere

Jagland arrives for a one-day visit to Slovakia

Landmark treaty to ban cluster munition signed in Oslo

New iniciative against malaria

Norwegian Chairmanship of the Holocaust Task Force

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State Secretary Elisabeth Walaas visits Slovakia

The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Bratislava