Norway pledges NOK 228 million to the Palestinian Authority

16/08/2007 :: “I welcome and give my full support to Security Council resolution 1701 on a cessation of hostilities in Lebanon. The full support of a united international community is key to completing the challenging tasks which this resolution sets out. Responsibility now lies with the parties. Their willingness to implement the resolution will be decisive,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre. + More

16/08/2007 :: Twenty years after launching Our Common Future, Norway’s former prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland has been appointed a UN Special Envoy for Climate Change. + More

16/08/2007 :: Muhammad Yunus and Al Gore will be among the speakers at the conference on corporate social responsibility in Oslo, which will be opened by Norway’s Foreign Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre on 28 March. + More

The former Norwegian Minister of Development, Hilde Frafjord Johnson, is appointed Deputy Director of UNICEF’s Head Quarter in New York. + More