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  • March 15. 2023 / Prime Minister's Office, Ministry for Foreign Affairs

    Prime Minister and the Minister for Foreign Affairs visited Ukraine and met with Volodomyr Zelensky

    Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir and Minister for Foreign Affairs Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir met with President of Ukraine Volodomyr Zelensky in Kyiv yesterday. The situation in Ukraine, I...


  • March 14. 2023 / Ministry of Culture and Business Affairs

    Head start for Icelandic

    Icelandic was chosen as the first language, other than English, to feature in the development phase of the latest version of OpenAI's GPT-4  project, which was officially announced today. Icelan...


  • March 11. 2023

    Fitch Affirms Iceland at ‘A’; Outlook Stable

    Fitch Ratings has affirmed Iceland´s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at ‘A’ with a Stable Outlook. According to Fitch, Iceland’s ‘A’ rating is underpinned by its very high incom...


  • February 27. 2023 / Ministry for Foreign Affairs

    Minister for Foreign Affairs addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council

    Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir Minister for Foreign Affairs addressed the beginning of the 52nd regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on behalf of Iceland today. ...


  • February 24. 2023 / Ministry for Foreign Affairs

    Brutal aggression against Ukraine – One Year On

    Today, the 24th of February, marks one year since the launch of Russia’s full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine. On this occasion, the international community has come together to show solidarit...


  • January 09. 2023 / Ministry of Higher Education٫ Science and Innovation

    Iceland ratifies the Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education

    On December 5, 2022, Iceland and Andorra ratified the UNESCO Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education, thus becoming the 19th and ...


  • December 30. 2022 / Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs

    ​Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy 2023-2027

    The Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs has published Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy for the period 2023-2027. The MTDMS is presented on the basis of the fiscal plan, in accordance with Art...


  • December 22. 2022 / Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Higher Education٫ Science and Innovation

    EUIPO’s Grand Board rules in favour of Iceland

    The European Union Intellectual Property Office’s Grand Board of Appeal has rejected all of the requests of the British retail chain Iceland Foods Ltd regarding the use of the word mark Iceland. The c...


  • December 12. 2022 / Ministry for Foreign Affairs

    Nine tons of Icelandic warmth headed for Ukraine

    Nine tons of Icelandic warmth were aboard a Canadian military transport aircraft that left Keflavik Airport headed for Ukraine today. The cargo consists of winter equipment for the armed forces and th...


  • December 01. 2022 / Ministry for Foreign Affairs

    Opening of an Icelandic Embassy in Warsaw

    Iceland opened a new embassy today in Warsaw, the capital of Poland. Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörd Gylfadóttir, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Arkadiusz Mularczyk, Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland, at...


  • November 24. 2022 / Ministry for Foreign Affairs

    Human Rights Council adopts resolution on the human rights situation in Iran

    Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution tabled by Iceland and Germany to set up an international independent fact-finding mission to investigate ongoing human rights violat...


  • November 24. 2022 / Ministry of Higher Education٫ Science and Innovation

    Better Access and More Efficient Processing of Official Documents Priorities for International Specialists in Iceland

    Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir, Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, hosted a workshop earlier this week where attendees discussed opportunities for improve...


  • November 23. 2022 / Ministry for Foreign Affairs

    Joint Statement by the Ministers of Defence of the Northern Group

    Oslo, Norway, 23 November 2022 Today, representatives of the Northern Group – comprising Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden and the...


  • November 22. 2022 / Ministry for Foreign Affairs

    Joint statement by the Ministers of Defence of NORDEFCO

    The Nordic Ministers of Defence and representatives met in Oslo today to discuss the grave security situation in Europe, the war in Ukraine, Nordic defence cooperation and the incoming Finnish and Swe...


  • November 11. 2022 / Ministry for Foreign Affairs

    Joint statement by JEF Defence Ministers

    Defence Ministers of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) met in Edinburgh on 9-10 November. During the Ministerial, the security situation in Europe, support to Ukraine and collective approaches to se...


  • November 10. 2022 / Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs

    Financing for Gender Equality

    Today the Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs met with Ms. Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women, who is in Iceland for the Reykjavík Global Forum – Women Leaders. The Minister and the Exec...


  • November 09. 2022 / Ministry for Foreign Affairs

    Iceland takes over the Presidency of the Council of Europe

    Iceland took formally over the Presidency of the Council of Europe from Ireland today at a meeting of the Committee of Ministers in Strasbourg. This is the third time Iceland assumes the Presidency o...


  • November 09. 2022 / Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour

    Open presentation on grants from the Development Fund for Immigration Issues

    On Friday, 11 November, the Immigration Council will host an open presentation on the Development Fund for Immigration Issues, and the application process, this year’s focus points and the Fund’s...


  • November 07. 2022 / Prime Minister's Office, Ministry for Foreign Affairs

    Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe held in Iceland

    The fourth Summit in the history of the Council of Europe will be held in Iceland on May 16-17, 2023. The Prime Minister of Iceland and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ireland today announced...


  • November 03. 2022 / Prime Minister's Office, Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour, Ministry for Foreign Affairs

    Iceland’s Presidency in the Nordic Council of Ministers 2023

    Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir has presented the programme for the Icelandic Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers for 2023. The Prime Minister presented the one-year Presidency programme ...

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