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Speach from Minister of Defence, Bjørn Arild Gram at Berlin Security Conference 1. December 2022.

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Report to the Storting on Policy Coherence for Development 2011

Chapter 12 from the 2012 budget proposal from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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G10 communique Paris 02.05.05

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Annual Report on Bilateral Development Cooperation

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New roles for non-governmental organisations in development cooperation

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Seventeenth/eighteenth periodic report submitted by Norway under article 9 of the international convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination

Conference Report: Protecting education from attack

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Norway supports the EU Military Assistance Mission for Ukraine with approximately NOK 150 million

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Defense ministers meeting in the European Intervention Initiative will take place in Oslo

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Joint Statement on Afghanistan

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Statement on Sudan

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Foreign Minister Eide discussed the critical situation in Gaza with Prince Faisal bin Farhan

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Meeting between Prime Minister Støre and Palestinian Prime Minister Shtayyeh

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Agreement at the UN to recognize the efforts of human rights defenders

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Statement on the developments in Sudan

'I am deeply concerned by the developments in Sudan, especially what we are now seeing in Darfur, with alarming reports of serious human rights violations and abuse committed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias, including killings,

Joint Statement by the Ministers of Defence of the Northern Group

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Norwegian Naval Strike Missiles to the British Royal Navy

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