The Russian Duma (Parliament) will within a month ratifiy the treaty between Norway and Russia concerning the Maritime Delimitation and Cooperation in the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean.
Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre is Monday on a visit to Kaliningrad, where he will meet his Russian counterpart, Sergeij Lavrov. On Tuesday Støre will visit Lithuania.
Member of Parliament, Ola Borten Moe (34) from Trondheim, has been appointed new Minister of Petroleum and Energy. He takes over from Terje Riis-Johansen who has chosen to step down.
The Norwegian government is deeply concerned about the situation in Côte d’Ivoire and neighbouring countries, and is therefore providing NOK 20 million in emergency relief to the West African nation.
Norway has condemned the kiilling of Pakistani Minority Minister Sahbaz Bhatti on Wednesday. Bhatti was a fearless campaigner for human rights and the position of minorities in Pakistan, the Foreign Ministry says.
The finance committee of the European Parliament has accepted that Norway may continue its policy of higher guarantees than the EU for bank customers' deposits, NRK reports.
The Norwegian government has condemned the violence used during demonstrations in Libya, Bahrein and Yemen, in which a number of people have been killed, and many said to have been arrested.
The government of the Philippines and communist rebels are this week holding peace talks in Oslo, in a new effort to end their 40-year conflict. The meeting is hosted by Norwegian State Secretary Espen Barth Eide.
More than 90,000 voters who supported Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's Labour Party (AP) in the parliamentary election in 2009, have now switched to the Conserative Party (Høyre).
“Mubarak’s resignation is historic, not only for Egypt, but for the entire region. The will of the people has prevailed,” Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg (photo) said after the Egyptian president had stepped down.
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