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New Seeds in Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Svalbard Global Seed Vault welcomes shipments from four new depositors. The world’s largest repository of crop diversity raises the number of the samples in its care to 1.29 million.

Action plan against antisemitism 2025-2030

On Monday, November 11, 2024, the government presented a new action plan against antisemitism - the third of its kind. The action plan is part of the government's efforts to strengthen and renew the fight against racism, hate speech, and

Norway’s Brazil strategy: Partnership for a common future

Brazil is Norway’s most important partner in Latin America. More than 230 Norwegian companies are present in Brazil. The country is the most important investment market for Norwegian businesses outside of Europe and the USA.

Annual report 2023: The Norwegian National Contact Point for Responsible Business Conduct

One of the NCP’s most important responsibilities is to promote the OECD Guidelines for Responsible Business Conduct. The objective of the Guidelines is to promote positive contributions from businesses to economic, environmental and social progress

Summary of Meld. St. 13 (2024–2025) Report to the Storting (white paper)

Prevention of extremism. Safety, trust, cooperation and democratic resilience.

This report to the Parliament is largely based on the Commission on Extremism’s description of the situation and knowledge base. The white paper also builds on the authorities’ work in the field over a number of years, as well as insight and

Views adopted by the Human Rights Committee - Jovsset Ánte Sara

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Deposit Guarantee Scheme

I would like to draw your attention to an issue which is of great importance for Norway, namely the ongoing review of the Deposit Guarantee Scheme directive which might be entering the final stage.

The Government’s commitment to the ocean and ocean industries

"Blue Ocean, Green Future"

The story of Norway is a tale of the ocean. The ocean contributes to value creation and employment alongour entire coast, and lays the foundation for some of our most innovative companies and knowledge communities. Through this document, the

Strategy for Norway’s efforts in the Sahel region (2021–2025)

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched its new strategy for the Sahel region 23 June.

Norway's efforts in the Sahel region 2018-2019

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This status report for the period 2018-2019 offers insight into how Norway is following up the Sahel strategy via various channels, without going into detail about every aspect of the activities or providing specifics about overall achievement of

Norway's WHO Strategy – Norway as a member of the World Health Organization's Executive Board (2024–2027)

Norway is member of the World Health Organisation's Executive Board from 2024 to 2027. This strategy describes Norway's three priorities: good governance, achieving universal health coverage and better preparedness and response to health and

Norway´s Path Towards a Sustainable Food System

Key elements of the Norwegian Government’s work on sustainable food system, including the national dialogue and written input.

Minister Aukrust’s remarks at an event on sexualised and gender-based violence in New York

In connection with the annual meeting of the UN Population Commission in New York, Norway organised a side event on sexualised and gender-based violence (SGBV) together with, among others, the UN Population Fund, UNFPA, the UN Children's Fund UNICEF

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Securing the foundation of our food supply

Today the Svalbard Global Seed Vault welcomes 40,507 new seed samples from nine genebank depositors, including collections from Latvia, Morocco, Taiwan, USA, Netherlands, Israel, Poland, Zambia, and Italy.

Welcome speech at the SYNERGY Conference

Dear all, Good morning from Oslo! It is a great pleasure for me to be part of the opening of this important international SYNERGY conference to address violence against Roma women. Preventing and combating gender-based and domestic violence is a key

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The Assessment of the State of Norwegian Democracy

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Norway’s National Action Plan: Women, Peace and Security (2023-2030)

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Kjerkol's WHA address

President, Director General, Excellencies, Colleagues, It is an honour to address you on the occasion of WHO’s 75-year anniversary. We pay tribute to WHO and its staff for their remarkable commitment. Over the past 75 years, we have made WHO a

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Important: Pets from Ukraine must be registered with the Norwegian Food Safety Authority

Ukrainian refugees arriving in Norway with their own pets must register these with the Norwegian Food Safety Authority. The state will cover all costs for tests, ID marking, vaccination, parasite treatments and quarantine.