Norges ambassadør til Island
Joined October 2009
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Landsmót hestamanna Iceland - fantastic horses and riders! With Baldvin frá Margretarhofi, 5 yrs, and Barla Isenenbuegel. @iceland_horses
The Republic of Icelandic turns 80 on Monday! Minister of Culture Lilja Alfreðsdóttir kicking off the festivities with historic exhibition - 98 pst of pop. voted for indep. in 1944!
On-shore el-connection for ships in the harbour of Reykjavik! @Hurtigruten spearheads development - with harbours in Norway and Iceland. Cuts emissions and noise. Way to go!
🙌🏻 to #Faxaports & @reykjavik with the implementation of onshore technology offering cruise ships to cut emissions and use 🟢 Icelandic electricity. Fritjof Nansen from @Hurtigruten had the honours 🔌
🇳🇴equipment from #Zinus & #PetroWellServices
🇮🇸 Geothermical heating is next
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Norway congratulates Halla Tómasdóttir and Iceland and looks forward to continue our close and excellent cooperation in the new presidential period!
Gratulerer med valget som Islands nye president, Halla Tómasdóttir. Jeg ønsker deg alt godt i din gjerning for Island, og ser fram til å videreføre det nære samarbeidet mellom Island og Norge, og vårt fellesskap her i Norden.
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Big changes are happening in the Nordic security landscape as NATO turns 75 - important and interesting to follow the thoughts of a broad selection of Icelandic opinion-makers - on Icelandic security issues.
2024 marks 7️⃣5️⃣ years in @NATO for both 🇮🇸 and 🇳🇴
Icelandic Foreign Minister @thordiskolbrun addressed severel issues on why NATO is maybe more important than ever & expressed pride on behalf of Iceland to have partaked in establishing the world’s most powerful defense alliance.
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En ære og glede å markere 8.mai på Island, med gode kolleger fra Island og NATO - ikke minst våre nye NATO-naboer Finland og Sverige!
Today we pay tribute to the 37 🇳🇴 servicemen who served and fell during WW2 - fighting from 🇮🇸
Ambassador Willoch: «Freedom and liberty is not won for eternity, but must be secured, over and over again.»
#8mai1945 #frigjøringsdagen #WeAreNATO
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Ja, dette gleder jeg meg til - og ingen ringer enn ambasssdens egen Silje Beite Løken samtaler med Marie Aubert. Det blir fint @NordicHouseRVK
Author Marie Aubert will be interviewed on 16th of April at @NordicHouseRVK
Everyone who understands Norwegian or Blandinavísku in general🇩🇰🇮🇸🇸🇪🇳🇴🇫🇴are welcome. The event starts at 19 hrs. Free entrance and a glass of wine.
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A perfect saturday in Reykjavik could be like this - sunscreen, snow and sea, waffels and chat with growing number of Icelandic cross country skiers - then heitur pottur (no photo proof)
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Stimulating discussions about the future of Nordic Cooperation - Nordic Family imoprtant in almost every sector of our Nordic societies!
Yesterday Ambassador Cecilie Willoch marked the upcoming Nordic Day at @NordicHouseRVK
📌Nordic co-operation is the oldest of its kind, and involves all sectors of society
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Thank you for a fruitful discussion yesterday.
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Nytt vulkanutbrudd på Reykjanes kl 2023, her er utsikten fra ambassadørboligen. Reisende anmodes om å følge lokale myndigheters råd og anvisninger - se ambassadens hjemmeside norway.no/no/iceland/seismis…
One of my daily walks take me past the memorial at, raised for the Norwegian Air Squadron 330 - which flew allied operations out of Iceland between 1941 and ‘43. It now has a wreath laid down by visitors to the 100+ women and men from 2024 Norwegian airpolicing over Iceland.
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Congratulations to @laufey , to @PresidentISL and to Iceland!
Congratulations yet again @laufey for winning the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. We are all so very proud.
Norway’s and other allies’ air-policing out of Keflavik through NATO, shows in a concrete way the importance of allied cooperation!
Norway conducts the first of three Allied fighter deployments to Iceland in 2024. The F-35 fighter aircrafts are flying @NATO Air Policing out of Keflavík🛫
But what is “Air policing”?
NATO’s JFCBS Representative explains👇🏻
@MFAIceland @Forsvaret_no @gaeslan #WeAreNATO
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These days are indeed difficult and challenging for everyone in #Grindavik. All Norwegians feel strong sympathy with Grindvíkingar and admire the endurance and calm shown in this crisis. 🇮🇸🇳🇴
The people of Grindavik have proven their resilience. It is a duty that befalls us all to ensure that they can continue to show themselves and others what they are made of [...]
Read my full address to the nation in the wake of the Grindavík eruption: forseti.is/media/12127/20240…
On á beautiful day in Heiðmörk the Oslóartree was felled - hopefully to lighten up the days of all of Reykjavik towards x-mas. See you on Sunday in front of Alþingi!
Icelandic forest and a beautiful Christmas tree 🌲
🪚 by Mayor @Dagurb of Reykjavik with a little help from Sævar and cheered on by the rest of us. Thanks for having us and we are looking forward to seeing the «Oslóartré» on Sunday🌟
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