News and events // 10/09/2010 //

Ambassaden arrangerer i november 2010 Norske Dager i Litauen. Onsdag 24. november er det, i samarbeid med Norsk-litauisk handelskammer og Innovasjon Norge, særlig fokus på næringslivet. Norske enheter (selskaper, klynger, forsknings- og utdanningsinstitusjoner, nettverk) og medlemmer av det Norsk-litauiske handelskammeret inviteres til å fremme sine ønsker og behov, så vil vi i størst mulig gra...

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News and events // 06/09/2010 //

A 19-year-old chess Grandmaster from Norway competes against the whole world, and the northern city of Tromsø makes a bid to host the World Chess Olympiad in 2014. Can Norway become a key player in international chess?

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News and events // 02/09/2010 //

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will 13 September host a high-level conference on the international situation in the labour market, where millions of people are unemployed as a result of the global economic crisis.

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Photo: Benedicte Tresselt Koren/MFA Norway
News and events // 14/07/2010 //

Many seafarers/sailors boarding a ship in Norway, or transiting through Norway, do not need a visa.

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J.Stoltenberg and A. Kubilius
News and events // 05/06/2010 //

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg visited Vilnius 1st and 2nd of June 2010, where he attended the Summit of the Council of the Baltic Sea States and a plenary session at the Baltic Development Forum. The CBSS Summit also marked the end of Lithuania’s one year long presidency of the organisation , a role which from 1 July 2010 is taken over by Norway. For further information, please visit the home...

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Desmond Tutu speaking at ISFiT 2009
Photo: ISFIT/Fotogjengen ved Studentersamfundet i Trondjem
News and events // 02/09/2010 //

ISFiT -The International Student Festival in Trondheim, one of the world’s largest student festivals, is being held in Norway in February 2011. The theme for this year’s festival is global health. The application deadline is 30 September.

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Yoeun Sam En of Cambodia lost both arms and his sight in 2004 as he attempted to destroy four “bombies” his children had found while playing.
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News and events // 29/07/2010 //

1 August 2010 marks a triumph for international humanitarian efforts as the Convention on Cluster Munitions enters into force.

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News and events // 28/06/2010 //

Norway will take over the Presidency of the Council of the Baltic Sea States for one year from the first of July. This means that Norway’s Minister of Foreign Affairs will be the President of the organisation during this period, and Norway will also chair the Committee of Senior Officials. Norway assumes the Presidency in accordance with a rotation agreement between the member countries. Lithua...

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News and events // 24/05/2010 //

More than 60 countries agreed to concrete measures to address armed violence in Geneva on 12 May.

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