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| Nigeria: Govt Imports N109 Billion Fish From Norway Annually |
| [Norwaynews] [03.02.2012, 01:38pm, Fri. GMT] |
| Nigeria imports fish worth about N109.2 billion ($700 million) annually from Norway, the Norwegian Ambassador to Nigeria, Kjell Lillerud has said. He said this yesterday in Abuja when he visited the Minister of state for Trade and Investment, Dr Samuel Ortom.Lillerud said that though he does not have the tonnage of fish that gets to Nigeria, there are three categories with stock fish taking the lead. |
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Peace Talks
| Investigation into Nobel Peace Prize |
| [Norwaynews] [03.02.2012, 07:56pm, Fri. GMT] |
Swedish officials are investigating an author's claims that the Norwegian Nobel Committee has not been honoring Alfred Nobel's last wishes, officials say. Norwegian author and law professor Fredrik S. Heffermehl has been writing books and opinion pieces for several years claiming the last wishes of Alfred Nobel are not being honored. Nobel's will states the Nobel Peace Prize shall be given to: "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congress."
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| | | | Nansen Dialogue Centre Skopje awarded by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe |
| [Norwaynews] [22.10.2011, 01:10pm, Sat. GMT] |
| The prestigious ‘Max van der Stoel Award’ will be presented to NDC Skopje and the Nansen Dialogue Network on 24 October 2011 in The Hague, Netherlands. The award, established in 2001, is presented every other year to a person, group or institution for extraordinary achievements to improve the position of minorities. |
| | | | Liu Xiaobo granted brief visit home |
| [Norway] [04.10.2011, 11:39am, Tue. GMT] |
| The brothers of a jailed Chinese Nobel peace prize winner have said that they were recently allowed a rare visit to see him and that he was in good health. The three brothers also said Liu Xiaobo, serving a jail term for suspicion of "inciting subversion of state power", was taken to the family's home in Dalian, in north-eastern China, last month to mourn the death of their father seven. |
| | | | Ugandan sexual activists win Norwegian prize |
| [Norwaynews] [29.09.2011, 11:14am, Thu. GMT] |
| A Ugandan umbrella organization that campaigns for the rights of sexual minorities was Thursday named winner of the 2011 Rafto Prize by a Norwegian human rights foundation. Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) - a coalition that works for the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people - and its leader Frank Mugisha were cited for their efforts to 'make fundamental human rights apply to everyone, and to eliminate discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.' |
| | | | Kofi Annan expresses his sincere condolences on the occasion of the death of Prof. Wangari Maathai |
| [Norwaynews] [26.09.2011, 11:20am, Mon. GMT] |
Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai has died in hospital where she was undergoing treatment for cancer, her organization the Green Belt Movement said on Monday. Mr. Annan is deeply saddened to learn this morning of the passing of Prof. Wangari Maathai.
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| | | | Norway backs Palestinian UN bid for statehood |
| [Norwaynews] [18.09.2011, 11:15am, Sun. GMT] |
Norway will recognize a Palestinian state, Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store said Sunday as Palestinians prepared to seek statehood recognition from the United Nations. 'Only negotiations can solve matters between Israel and the Palestinians, and should commence immediately,' Store wrote in an entry on his Facebook page. 'But the Palestinians have a right to go to the UN. Norway will support this and is prepared to recognize a Palestinian state,' he added.
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| | | | MHP says recording on PKK talks aims to prevent ground offensive in Iraq |
| [Norwaynews] [14.09.2011, 01:24pm, Wed. GMT] |
The opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has said the recent emergence of a voice recording that allegedly reveals secret talks between representatives of the Turkish government and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) organization in Oslo is a form of blackmail to discourage the government from launching a ground offensive against PKK targets in northern Iraq.
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| | | | Hichem Karoui: Doha Conference on Palestine |
| [Norway] [09.09.2011, 09:09pm, Fri. GMT] |
| The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (Doha Institute) holds a conference under the title: “The Palestinian September: Between the Path to Oslo and the Return to International Bodies” on Thursday. This is to my knowledge a unique event organised by a think tank about an issue that has grown to be almost as complicated as the conflict itself: have the Palestinians the right to apply for full UN membership? This is what experts from different horizons are expected to debate. |
| | | | Philippine agreed to seal a peace accord in Oslo? |
| [Norwaynews] [07.09.2011, 07:48am, Wed. GMT] |
| The Philippine government and the nation's communist rebels have agreed to make a new effort to resume their stalled peace talks in Oslo next month. The impasse stems from the communist rebels’ demand that the Philippines free 13 captured insurgent officers, according to the government chief negotiator Alexander Padilla. |
| | | | Norway seeks Philippines peace talks revival |
| [Norwaynews] [01.09.2011, 02:51pm, Thu. GMT] |
| Norway is to send a special envoy to the Philippines in a bid to kickstart stalled peace talks between Manila and communist rebels waging a decades-long insurgency, officials said Thursday. Ture Lundh, who has been brokering the negotiations, will travel to the Philippines between September 5 to 7 to try to break the deadlock, the government and rebel negotiators said separately. |
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| International Campaign Points to Especial Importance of the
2011 Nobel Peace Prize |
| [Norwaynews] [05.12.2011, 04:25pm, Mon. GMT] |
| The Institute for Inclusive Security announced today a global campaign focusing on an overlooked aspect of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, which is being awarded “for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work.” Activities in 25 countries between now and the Oslo ceremony on December 10 will call on thousands to “Rise with the Prize.” |
| | | | Yemeni, Liberian women win Nobel Peace Prize - Norwegian television reported shortly before the Announcement |
| [Norwaynews] [07.10.2011, 10:49am, Fri. GMT] |
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 is to be divided in three equal parts between Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman for their nonviolent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work. Norwegian news television reported shortly before the offical announcement that Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was one of the winners. |
| | | | Nobel chief sees "important" 2011 Peace Prize |
| [Norway] [29.09.2011, 07:24pm, Thu. GMT] |
This year's Nobel Peace Prize will be as "interesting" as the ones awarded to Barack Obama and Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee told Reuters on Thursday. Under the two-year leadership of Thorbjoern Jagland, an ex-Norwegian prime minister, the Nobel Peace Prize has been given to the U.S. President, then less than a year in office, and to the jailed democracy activist, infuriating Beijing to this day.
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| | | | Nobel Peace Prize may recognise Arab Spring |
| [Norway] [28.09.2011, 08:02am, Wed. GMT] |
| The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize may recognise activists who helped unleash the revolutionary wave that swept through North Africa and the Middle East during the Arab Spring. Wael Ghonim, an Egyptian Internet activist and Google executive, Egypt's April 6 Youth Movement, one of its founders Israa Abdel Fattah, and Tunisian blogger Lina Ben Mhenni could therefore be among those in line for the award when it is announced on Oct. 7. |
| | | | Palestine Donors'' meeting was not meant to boost UN membership - Norway Politics |
| [Norwaynews] [19.09.2011, 11:12am, Mon. GMT] |
| The praise the Palestinian Authority won late Sunday during a meeting of the donors' support group on Palestine about its remarkable economic performance and readiness for statehood was not meant to boost Palestine's bid for full UN membership, a Norwegian diplomat told reporters. |
| | | | Manila to resume talks with rebel group soon |
| [Norwaynews] [18.09.2011, 09:29am, Sun. GMT] |
| Peace negotiations with the the communist-led National Democratic Front (NDF) will resume in October or November in Norway, the head of the Philippine government’s peace panel said yesterday. Alexander Padilla expressed optimism that the three-year timetable that he had set for himself to finish negotiations with the NDF-Communist Party of the Philippines and New People’s Army would be realised in 2013. |
| | | | Secret recording interpreted as attempt to sway opinion against gov’t |
| [Norwaynews] [13.09.2011, 03:26pm, Tue. GMT] |
An almost 50-minute long voice recording that allegedly reveals secret talks between representatives of the Turkish government and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) organization in Oslo, Norway, has been interpreted as the latest attempt to influence Turkish public opinion against the government. |
| | | | Reds reject peace talks without prisoner release |
| [Norwaynews] [09.09.2011, 08:12am, Fri. GMT] |
THE communist rebels on Thursday rejected formal peace talks in October unless the government releases all their detained leaders whom they claim are covered by immunity guarantees. The National Democratic Front made the statement two days after government chief negotiator Alexander Padilla and NDF chief negotiator Luis Jalandoni met in Manila with Norway’s special envoy, Ture Lundh, as facilitator.
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| | | | Philippine rebels meet Norway envoy in peace bid |
| [Norwaynews] [05.09.2011, 03:48pm, Mon. GMT] |
| Philippine communist rebel negotiators met a special Norwegian envoy on Monday in a fresh bid to reopen stalled peace talks to end a four-decade war with the government, aides said. The rebels' chief negotiator Luis Jalandoni met the envoy at the embassy in Manila but details of the talks were not disclosed, the insurgent secretariat said. |
| | | | Skien International Ibsen Conference 2011 |
| [Norwaynews] [01.09.2011, 10:40am, Thu. GMT] |
This year’s Skien International Ibsen Conference will take place on 19 and 20 September. The theme of the conference is "Reading and staging Ibsen. Ibsen and contemporary Norwegian drama".
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