News and events

05.Mar.2018

Maldivene - reiseråd

Utenriksdepartementet råder norske reisende til å utvise aktsomhet ved reiser til eller opphold i Malé.

05.Feb.2018

Reiser til Malé, Maldivene

Ambassaden ber besøkende om å utvise varsomhet ved besøk til hovedstaden Malé på Maldivene etter at det de siste dagene har vært demonstrasjoner og uroligheter knyttet til den politiske situasjonen.

13.Dec.2017

Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary visits Norway

Norway and Sri Lanka held Foreign Secretary consultations in Oslo Monday 11 December.

21.Nov.2017

Press Release: International community joins Norway in supporting human rights defenders

UN Member States unanimously endorsed the free and independent role of human rights defenders at the UN today. ‘The international community has sent a strong signal.

20.Oct.2017 | Oslo

New Minister of Foreign Affairs

In a session of the Council of State today, the King has made changes in the Norwegian Government.

26.Oct.2017

Ambassadors visit to the North

Ambassador of Norway Thorbjørn Gaustadsæther recently made a visit to newly released Myladi harbour area and newly resettled Thellipalai Divisional Secretariat area in Jaffna District.

17.Oct.2017

Press Release: NOK 150 million for development programme to combat plastic and other marine litter

‘The new development programme will use effective and environmentally sound approaches to combating marine litter. To start with, the programme will focus on Southeast Asia, which is the region where the problem is most acute.

21.Aug.2017 | Colombo

Norwegian Research Vessel to Sri Lanka in 2018

Norwegian Research Vessel Dr Fridtjof Nansen is planned to be in Sri Lankan waters assisting Sri Lanka to conduct a stock assessment of marine Resources.

07.Jun.2017

Norway contributes LKR 180 million to flood and landslide relief in Sri Lanka

The Norwegian Foreign Minister, Børge Brende, has announced that “Norway will contribute with NOK 10 million (LKR 180 million/USD 1.2 million) to the humanitarian relief effort” due to floods and landslides in Sri Lanka.

01.Jun.2017

Norway to provide NOK 10 million (LKR 180 million/USD 1,2 million) in flood and landslide relief to Sri Lanka.

More than half a million people are currently affected by flooding and landslides, due to torrential rain the past days. (Article in Norwegian)

31.Mar.2017

Resettlement of farmers in North

Sellappa Sivanesan aged 47, a father of two from Tellipalai, Jaffna was forced to leave his home in 1990 due to the conflict. At the time he was just 19 and still in school. They were displaced several times in the next years.

28.Mar.2017

Norway supports Sri Lankan fishery sector with 2,5 million USD

Agreements for two new fishery projects has been signed by Norway and Sri Lanka. The new agreements includes assistance in developing a fishery policy for Sri Lanka and fish stock assessment of the Sri Lankan coast.