Norway elected to chair important committee during UN General Assembly

08/10/2007 :: Status quo in Norway after local election on 10 September 2007. The conservative party (Høyre) keeps majority in Oslo, Norway’s capital, as well as in Bergen. The social democratic party (Arbeiderpartiet) still rules Trondheim. + More

04/06/2007 :: Norway has been selected by the United Nations to host World Environment Day. The topic this year is “ Melting ice- a hot topic?” The Ministry of Environment has picked Tromsø to be the host city for a number of profiled events during ... + More

22/02/2007 :: Live video from the "Oslo Conference on Cluster Munitions" On 22 – 23 February, more than 45 states, UN bodies and agencies, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Cluster Munitions Coalition, will come together in Oslo to ... + More

22/09/2006 :: The UN has established that more than 50 per cent of the approximately 100 million children who do not attend school are affected by war and conflict. The Norwegian governments is contributing NOK 100 million (EUR 12 million) to Save the Children so that these children can also receive schooling. + More