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Last updated: 02/02/2012 //
Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre commented, “Norway strongly condemns the increasing use of violence in Syria, where thousands have been killed. We deeply deplore the Syrian authorities’ gross human rights violations against the country’s own population.”
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Last updated: 30/01/2012 //
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg gave the following speech on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day 27 January 2012 in Oslo.
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Last updated: 15/12/2011 //
Today one hundred years have passed since Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his expedition became the first to reach the South Pole. In a speech at the South Pole Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg today honoured Amundsen and his men. He also paid tribute to the bravery of British explorer Robert F. Scott and his expedition.
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Last updated: 05/12/2011 //
Norway Cup is the world’s largest football tournament for youth and children, and is being held this year for the 34rd time. The tournament will be taking place from July 29 to August 4.
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Last updated: 12/12/2011 //
“Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman are each in their own right worthy winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Government welcomes the award of this year’s prize to these three women. It is recognition of women’s non-violent efforts to promote peace and democracy,” said Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.
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Last updated: 12/01/2012 //
Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre gave a presentation called ‘In defence of dialogue’ under an ICRC conference in Geneva in November 2011. The presentation is published on ted.com and can be watched here .
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Last updated: 12/12/2011 //
From 12 to 15 December Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is visiting the South Pole to mark the centenary of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team reaching the Pole in 1911, and to underline the importance of the Antarctic continent in relation to global climate change.
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Last updated: 05/12/2011 //
Karl Seglem, musician, composer and poet, plays the tenor saxophone and the goat horn (the Jewish traditional Shofar). His original tunes derive from the abandunt traditional Norwegian folk music carrying the scents of breathtaking landscapes and turquoise fiords. Seglem (40) creates musical worlds that equally emphasize composition and improvisation. He presents a combination of jazz with the...
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Last updated: 28/11/2011 //
The musical ‘Bridges’, an international music and art project, will be performed by pupils of the Jerusalem bilingual Jewish-Arab Rayne-School, run by ‘Hand in Hand - Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel’, together with students from the Norwegian lower secondary high school ‘Fjære Ungdomsskole’ in Grimstad and Swiss students from Zug, Hochdorf and Huneberg.
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