Historical archive
Published under: Stoltenberg's 2nd Government
In the Historical archive you will find information from previous governments such as press releases, news and speeches from previous government periods. You will also find outdated current affairs from the sitting government. In addition the archive contains documents where the content is no longer valid, such as expired circulars.
Content that has been moved to the archive will not be updated and the information is therefore exclusively of an historical nature.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has been sharply criticised in a report by an independent commission on how the organisation has dealt with the alleged sexual exploitation and abuse by WHO staff in the response to the Ebola outbreak in the
In today’s session of the Council of State, state secretary Lucie Katrine Sunde-Eidem has been honourably discharged as state seceratary to Minister of Trade and Industry Iselin Nybø.
Four new ambassadors to Norway presented their letters of credence to His Majesty King Harald V on 2 September 2021:
People who have recovered from COVID-19 in Norway will now be exempt from transmission quarantine for 12 months. The COVID-19 certificate for domestic use will be updated, so that it is green for 12 months after recovery from COVID-19.
- Today Norway has aligned with the EU's new sectoral sanctions against Belarus as a response to the major human rights violations being committed by the country's authorities, says Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide.
On Thursday and Friday, Prime Minister Erna Solberg is taking part in the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, convened by US President Joe Biden. The objective of the Summit is to discuss how to promote stronger action to tackle the climate crisis.
Norway has decided to transfer more of its options for vaccine doses to the Covax global vaccine initiative. ‘Norway is being supplied with vaccines under its agreement with the EU and has decided that these options are not relevant for use on the
'The death sentence against 19 people in Myanmar is unacceptable and a deeply worrying development', Minister of Foreign Affairs Ine Eriksen Søreide said.
On 16 March, the Government introduced new regional measures in all Viken county’s municipalities and in Gran municipality of Innlandet county. All 52 municipalities were assigned response level A, the most restrictive level. As recommended by the
In a joint statement issued prior to the annual UN Economic and Social Council (Ecosoc) Youth Forum, Minister of International Development Dag-Inge Ulstein and youth delegates of the Norwegian Children and Youth Council (LNU) stressed that the
The government will follow the Norwegian Institute of Public Health’s recommendation to offer the AstraZeneca vaccine to people over the age of 65 based on new knowledge around the vaccine’s effectiveness on this demographic group. Following
‘After six years of armed conflict, the civilian population of Yemen is now facing the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. I am deeply concerned about the situation. At the High-Level Pledging Event for the Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen today,
The Wihte Paper is now available in english and russian.
The National Wages Board is in principle intended for voluntary arbitration. The parties may refer to the National Wages Board a dispute on wages and labour conditions which is not covered by a collective agreement. The Board’s decision has the
The Government is today presenting the white paper on Long-term Perspectives on the Norwegian Economy 2021. The white paper addresses the challenges facing Norway towards 2060, and the Government’s strategies for handling these.
Norway will increase its financial contribution to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (Ifad) by 40%.
The COVID-19 certificate is being introduced for domestic use in step 3 of the Norwegian Government's reopening plan. It will be possible to use the COVID-19 certificate to attend large events and take cruises along the Norwegian coast. At large
‘The EEA and Norway Grants scheme is not just an important contribution to economic and social development in the 15 beneficiary states. It also provides us with good opportunities to develop our bilateral cooperation with these countries,’ said
On 26 April, the IMF's delegation to Norway submitted its assessment of the Norwegian economy and Norwegian economic policy to the government. The full report has now been finalized by the IMF Board.
The Tokyo Co-Chairs (Norway, Japan, US and EU) jointly express their strong concerns about the termination of the 2002 Ceasefire Agreement by the Government of Sri Lanka. These concerns have already been expressed in individual statements.