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Official Visit to Latvia, June 11, 1998 Speech by Mr. Halldór Ásgrímsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs Ladies and gentlemen In 1990 and 1991 Iceland was at the forefront of efforts to secure int...

Official Visit to Estonia, June 10, 1998 Speech by Mr. Halldór Ásgrímsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs Ladies and gentlemen In 1990 and 1991 Iceland was at the forefront of efforts to secure inter...

Breakfast meeting, Iceland Chamber of Commerce, Dutch trade delegation H.E. Mr. Halldór Ásgrímsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Iceland Reykjavik, June 5, 1998 Honourable business leaders, ladies a...

Speech given by the Icelandic Minister of Finance, Mr. Geir H. Haarde to the German-Icelandic Chamber of Commerce, May 1998 (translated from German, original available here) The Icelandic Economy Ec...

Iceland's First Report on the Application of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child of 20th November 1989 Introduction On 26th January 1990, Iceland signed the United Nations Conv...

Iceland's Fourteenth Periodic Report on the Implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination According to Article 9 of the Convention PART I GENERAL O...

Iceland's Third Report on the Implementation of the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights Contents I. General Observations 1 - 11 II. Information relating to Individual P...

Meeting of the IBRD Development Committee of the World Bank H.E. Mr. Halldór Ásgrímsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Iceland, on behalf of the Nordic and Baltic Countries Washington D.C., April 17, ...

Foreign Affairs Address to the Althing, March 31, 1998 Mr. Halldór Ásgrímsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade of Iceland Unofficial Translation The Foreign Service In my address to...

23 January, 1998 Iceland in Europe - Speech delivered at CEPS, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels: H.E. Mr. Halldór Ásgrímsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Iceland, Iceland is a European...

19 January 1998 Statement at the 5th Ministerial Session of the Barents Euro-Arctic Council (BEAC) H.E. Mr. Halldór Ásgrímsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Iceland Madame Chairman, Allow me to be...

Treasury Finances 1997-1998 Iceland, December 1997 Annex. Overview of recent tax changes Over the past ten years the tax system in Iceland has gone through a comprehensive overhaul, where the mai...

Treasury Finances 1997-1998 Iceland, December 1997 2. Economic policy The main characteristics of the Icelandic economy have changed notably in recent years. The business climate has dramatically...

Treasury Finances 1997-1998 Iceland, December 1997 3. Economic developments and outlook In the last 3-4 years, the Icelandic economy has experienced unprecedented stability. After a prolonged per...

Treasury Finances 1997-1998 Iceland, December 1997 1. Overview The Minister of Finance presented the Budget Proposal for 1998 to the Icelandic Parliament, the Althing, on October 2. The Budget Pr...

Treasury Finances 1997-1998 Iceland, December 1997 4. Fiscal developments in 1997 When the 1997 Budget was passed by Parliament, in late December 1996, negotiations on the construction of a new a...

Treasury Finances 1997-1998 Iceland, December 1997 Graphs pertaining to Chapter 3 Contents Page - Chapter 3 - Next-

Treasury Finances 1997-1998 Iceland, December 1997 5. Financial reporting reform Last spring a new act was passed on the presentation of the Budget. This is a comprehensive act covering the centr...

Treasury Finances 1997-1998 Iceland, December 1997 7. Medium-term outlook 7.1 Medium-term scenario As before, the Ministry of Finance, in cooperation with the National Economic Institute and t...

Treasury Finances 1997-1998 Iceland, December 1997 6. Fiscal outlook for 1998 Two items characterise the 1998 Budget Proposal. First, it reflects the Government's economic policy of reaching a ba...