Speeches and statements
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MDG Advocacy Group Meeting
Check against delivery Secretary-General, Your Highness, Excellencies, Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like begin by expressing my gratitude to all those who have contributed to the global leaders report on MDG efforts, which is being
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Global Education First Initiative
Check against delivery Secretary-General, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen It is a great pleasure and privilege to address you today. On behalf of the Government of Norway, I pledge to double our financial support for good-quality education over
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UN Security Council Summit on Foreign Terrorist Fighters
Check against delivery Thank you, Mr President/Secretary Kerry/Ambassador Power. The unprecedented brutality of ISIL and its territorial ambitions pose a threat to all around this table. We must work together to eradicate the roots that allow such
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UN Climate Summit 2014
Check against delivery Co-chairs, Excellences, Ladies and gentlemen, The international response to climate change is lagging far behind what is necessary. The effects of climate change are being felt on all continents. Unmitigated climate change
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Speech at Offshore Northern Seas 2014
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Women in Parliament
Check against delivery Your Excellency President Paul Kagame, Speaker of the Chamber of deputies, Members of Parliament, Ministers, Members of Women in Parliament’s Global Forum, Fellow members of the Millennium Advocacy Group, Ladies and Gentlemen
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Speech at Nthulu Primary School
Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, and especially all you schoolchildren I would like to thank you all for welcoming us so warmly to Nthulu Primary School today. A special thanks to the school management and to all the learners who have shared
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PMNCH Partner Forum
Check against delivery Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen We are meeting here in Johannesburg for a common purpose. Together we are part of a global drive to prevent the deaths of millions of people every year, and to lay the foundation for
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Education is a powerful weapon, so let’s arm young girls with it
Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway is co-chair of the UN secretary general's MDG Advocates Group. Graça Machel is the founder of the Graça Machel Trust and member of the UN secretary general's MDG Advocates Group In 1990, the Italian World Cup
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Subsea Valley Conference
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How can the Nordic countries remain competitive?
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Industry and commerce, knowledge and competitiveness
Check against delivery Ladies and gentlemen, First of all, I would like thank the French–Norwegian Chamber of Commerce, Innovation Norway and the Norwegian Embassy for having organised this meeting. It is always interesting and useful to meet
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Why girls?
Check against delivery Secretary-General, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Millennium Declaration adopted some 14 years ago was an unprecedented show of global unity. At the turn of the millennium, world
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Humans in the Arctic
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New Year’s Address 2014