The report was commissioned by the ministers from former Norwegian Foreign Minister Thorvald Stoltenberg.

One proposal made by Stoltenberg is that the Nordic countries should cooperate in providing Iceland with an air defence system.

Iceland does not have its own air force, and was under the protection of the US Air Force which after WWII was stationed at the Keflavik Air Base. The US has recently withdrawn from the base.

They will also discuss international issues such as the Middle-East, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Sri Lanka and North-Korea, climate change, the international economic and financial crisis and European issues, as Sweden takes over the presidency of the European Union in July

The five ministers are: Per Stig Moeller of Denmark, Alexander Stubb of Finland, Jonas Gahr Stoere of Norway, Carl Bildt of Sweden and Ossur Skarphedinsson of Iceland.

(NRK/Press release)

Rolleiv Solholm