09/08/2007 :: The former Norwegian Minister of Development, Hilde Frafjord Johnson, is appointed Deputy Director of UNICEF’s Head Quarter in New York. + More

26/06/2007 :: 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

16/05/2007 :: Ambassador Mona Juul has been elected to chair the First Committee during this autumn’s UN General Assembly session. This is the committee that deals with issues related to international security and disarmament. + More

Norway has been a member of the United Nations ever since the organisation was founded in 1945. In fact, the first Secretary-General, Trygve Lie, was a Norwegian. The UN has always been a mainstay of Norway’s participation in the ... + More

For developing countries with pressing investment needs, a certain level of debt is both normal and natural. If loans are used for investments that are sound in socio-economic terms, an increase in a country’s debt burden may accelerate ... + More