Regjeringens strategi for Hviterussland

Ambassador Mona Juul has been elected to chair the First Committee during this autumn’s UN General Assembly session. This is the committee that deals with issues related to international security and disarmament.

 Norway has, with support from the other Nordic countries, taken the initiative to establish an international commission to strengthen the user and property rights of the poor. One of its goals is to raise international awareness about this issue.  The commission recently held its second meeting.

The Norwegian government will build a global vault for seeds on Svalbard. Seeds from the entire world will be put into frozen storage in the vault so that crop diversity can be conserved for the future, and Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg marked the start of the building process on 19 June.

- Ukraine is Europe's past. Ukraine is today proving to be Europe's present. And Ukraine is aspiring to be Europe's future. A future that Norway will share with you, a democratic future, a future for the rule of law, for peace, progress and human development, Norway's Minister of Foreign a affairs, Jonas Gahr Støre said in a speech at the Mohyla Academy in Kiev. The speech was delivered during...