Norway’s Minister of Foreign affairs, Jonas Gahr Støre, met with President Thain Sein in Myanmar’s capital, Nay Pyi Taw, on the 25th of January 2012. Photo: Kjetil Elsebutangen.
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Last updated: 02/02/2012 //
The Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jonas Gahr Støre, paid a two-day official visit to Myanmar on the 25 th and 26 th of January. In the capital Nay Pyi Taw, the minister had discussions with President Thein Sein, Vice Chairman Shwe Mann, Energy Minister Than Htay, Railways Minister Aung Min and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Maung Min. Subsequent meetings in Yangon allowed for...
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Last updated: 31/01/2012 //
The Government decided Friday that Myanmar should no longer be excluded from the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP). “This is a signal that Norway recognises the political reforms in Myanmar and hopes to see further democratic developments,” said Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. The easing of trade restrictions was announced to the authorities in Myanmar during Mr Støre’s visit this week...
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Last updated: 17/01/2012 //
The Government has decided that it will no longer urge Norwegian companies to refrain from trade and investment in Myanmar. The decision has been made in response to the progress being made in Myanmar. Norway continues to align itself with the EU sanction regime, which will be considered more closely in the course of the spring.
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Last updated: 13/12/2011 //
On 14 December, it is exactly 100 years since the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team reached the South Pole. From 12 to 15 December, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is visiting the South Pole to mark this centenary, and to underline the importance of the Antarctic continent in relation to global climate change.
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Last updated: 14/12/2011 //
The Norwegian national football team will in January 2012 participate in King’s Cup for the very first time. The four country tournament will take place between Sunday 15 and Saturday 21 January, and all the matches will be played at Ratchmangla (Rajamangla) National Stadium. Denmark and South Korea (its Olympic team) will be the other two nationalities represented besides Thailand and Norway.
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Last updated: 20/01/2012 //
On 18 January, the Royal Norwegian Embassy and the National Science Museum THAILAND invited to the opening of the exhibition “Polar Norway – The White Adventure” at NSM Science Square, Chamchuree Square. Bangkok is the final destination of the exhibition which has been travelling around the world for the past years, spreading knowledge about climate change in the Polar Regions and its global...
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Last updated: 20/12/2011 //
Did you ever wonder how the polar adventurers survived the freezing temperatures and dangerous environment of the North and South Pole more than a hundred years ago? Or how polar expeditions are carried out today? And what will happen to the environment in the Polar Regions and the rest of the world if the climate continues to change?
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Last updated: 08/12/2011 //
The Eleventh Meeting of the States Parties (11MSP) to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention was held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 28 November – 2 December 2011. In the 11MSP’s final report, the Convention’s 158 States Parties’ agreed “to recommit, even in difficult financial times, to realizing a world without anti-personnel mines, where the rights of all are respected and where all women, girls,...
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Last updated: 02/12/2011 //
Since 1999, the Norwegian company AquaFence has helped people and companies all over the world to combat the destructions and devastations that flooding entails. On 1 December 2011, AquaFence held its first public demonstration of its flood protective system in Thailand, in the presence of both the Norwegian Ambassador H.E. Katja Christina Nordgaard and Deputy Governor to Bangkok, Mr. Porntep...
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