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 “The worst is over,” said Icelandic Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir today, “and now the clean-up can begin. Our geoscientists say that the eruption is waning day by day and that the proble...

Screening meeting with the European Union on Chapter 31 – Foreign, Security and Defence Policy – was concluded in Brussels 20 May. At the meeting, which was the latter one of two, experts from Iceland...

A volcanic eruption began in the Grimsvotn underneath the Vatnajökull glacier in South-East Iceland in the afternoon of Saturday, 21 May. Due to airborn ash concentration resulting from the eruption p...

Screening meeting with the European Union on Chapter 17 – Economic and monetary policy – was concluded in Brussels 17 May. At the meeting, which was the latter one of two, experts from Iceland and the...

Iceland and the United States will begin work on a memorandum of understanding for scientific cooperation on Arctic issues, following a meeting between Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs, Össur Sk...

Össur Skarphéðinsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland, condemns the violence that Syrian authorities have used against protesters in Syria in the last days and weeks. The minister says no gove...

Össur Skarphéðinsson Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland, yesterday presented an annual report on foreign affairs to the Icelandic Parliament. In his introductory speech the minister stressed the...

Screening meeting with the European Union on Chapter 28 – Consumer and Health protection – was concluded in Brussels 16 May. At the meeting, which was the latter one of two, experts from Iceland and t...

Össur Skarphéðinsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs signed an agreement on cooperation in Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue in the Arctic, along with representatives of the other seven member...

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Institute of International Affairs would like to draw your attention to a meeting today where Dr. Marcela Villarreal, Director of FAO's Gender, Equity and Rura...

Össur Skarphéðinsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland, urges the Israeli authorities to immediately release Palestinian tax funds to the Palestinian Authority in order for them to be able to p...

In a tender among investors in Treasury bonds that closed yesterday, the Central Bank of Iceland, on behalf of the Treasury, agreed to purchase, at par value, foreign Treasury bonds mat...

The Government of Iceland today issued a statement on the occasion of the conclusion of wage negotiations between the social partners. The negotiation have been ongoing for some time but concluded on ...

Statistics for Treasury finances in January-March 2011 are now available. Treasury finances January-March 2011 (PDF 45 KB)

A parliamentary resolution on Iceland's Arctic Policy was approved by Althingi on March 28 2011. It aims at securing Icelandic interests with regard to the effects of climate change, environmental iss...

At a meeting with Mr. S.M. Krishna, India's Foreign Minister in New Delhi yesterday, Mr. Ossur Skarphedinsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs, made a formal request that India would continue to support ...

In a referendum held last Saturday, the Icelandic people decided to reject a legislation providing a state guarantee for the reimbursement payments by the Icelandic Deposit Guarantee Fund to the gover...

Statistics for Treasury finances in January-February 2011 are now available. Treasury finances January-February 2011 (PDF 42 KB)

Screening meeting with the European Union on Chapter 29 – European Union Customs Union – was concluded in Brussels 6 April. At the meeting, which was the latter one of two, experts from Iceland and th...

Press Release  No.: 3/2011 A referendum on the so-called ‘Icesave Agreement' was held in Iceland on Saturday, 9 April. The referendum concerns the validity of Act No. 13/2011, which authoris...