Haga welcomed all practical initiatives and measures that could help to enhance transparency in the nuclear field, that involve new reductions in existing nuclear arsenals and that help to further lower the existing alert of strategic forces.
ASLAUG MARIE HAGA, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Norway, reiterated that her country was deeply committed to nuclear disarmament and Norway's ultimate goal continued to be the total elimination of nuclear
Haga said that her Government was encouraged by the decision last year to establish the Ad Hoc Committee to negotiate a treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons and other nuclear explosive devices.
Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister Aslaug Marie Haga sought the support of the president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC), Rauf Denktas, on Tuesday for intensifying the business contacts between the Turkish and Greek communities on the long-divided island.
Denktas said that Haga's visit to the island would help her see the realities of the island and the injustices which the Turkish Cypriots had been subjected to for decades.
Haga, for her part, said that intensified business contacts between the two Cypriot communities could contribute to a final solution and stressed that such contacts constituted the base for the Oslo agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.
Al-Ahram Weekly | Press review | As far as Norway(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
NOPEF's initiative was welcomed by political parties in the Norwegian parliament, with the head of the Centre Party (Senterpartiet), AslaugHaga, saying the plan would be presented to the government.
Haga said she hoped Norway would adopt the proposal and present it to the EU and the UN to produce a resolution that would oblige other nations to deal firmly with Israel.
She suggested that Norway start by initiating discussions with other nations that agree with its vision to find a formulation that could be proposed in international forums.
Asked to say whether this issue had been discussed during the meeting between President Glafcos Clerides and the Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister AslaugHaga this morning in Nicosia, Stylianides said both expressed their views on the issue, reminding that Haga "believes that such measures should be promoted".
Speaking on her departure at Larnaca Airport this afternoon, Haga noted that she had "very constructive and useful talks" with both sides of the divide.
She pointed out that her meetings with President Glafcos Clerides, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides, political party leaders and with the business forum of the two communities gave her "a much better and clearer view on what is the situation you are facing on the island".
According to illegal Bayrak radio (11:30 hours, 9.2.99), AslaugHaga, Norwegian deputy foreign minister, who arrived in Cyprus on 7 February to hold contacts with both side in Cyprus, crossed over to the occupied area and met Rauf Denktash.
AslaugHaga affirmed that she had the opportunity to hold a good and frank meeting.
Haga affirmed that she learned certain things at her meeting with Rauf Denktash, adding that the establishment of intercommunal activities are a gain on the way to a solution.
Norwegian Farms(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The animals at Hytta and Haga were; 1 pale horse, 1 red cow, 1 red female cow without horns, 1 red heifer, 1 two year old heifer, 1 two year old bull, 1 one year old heifer and 1 sow.
Hytta and Haga had not had any debts, but under meeting of the beneficiaries and heirs in 16 July 1824, Hytta was able, under Medgarden and Haga and Sonstegard, to be assessed.
Hytta was two thirds and Haga one third, afterward Hytta and Haga became appraised as a permanent house.
Until that is done, few are venturing substantive comments on what they want to emerge from the negotiations.
Norway's State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Aslaug Marie Haga, avoided the often futile arguments about whether stocks should be included in the negotiations per se, and focussed instead on approaches for dealing with fissile material removed from the military production, so as to ensure irreversibility, security, safety and improved national control and material accounting.
Aslaug Marie Haga, Norway's State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 18 February 1999, CD/PV.814
Al-Ahram Weekly | Sports | Handball's gentler side(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A first-time seminar on women and handball, which included seven guest speakers from four continents, said that the sport and the gender today mix very well but could develop even more.
Inaugurating the meeting, AslaugHaga, the Norwegian minister for sport and culture, spoke about the history of women in Norway, in sports as well as other fields in the past 20 years, the participation of women in the parliament and the future of women in Norway as decision-makers.
International Handball Federation (IHF) President Erwin Lanc said the IHF has, in step with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), been striving for stronger women's representation for years, not only in the bodies of the world federation but also in the continents and the member federations and, in fact, right down to club level.
To study the outcome of pregnancy in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS).
The most important condition associated with pSS in anti-SSA positive mothers was congenital heart block in the offspring.
Supported by Lion Norway's Red Feather Foundation for Rheumatological Diseases, The Aslaug Andersen Foundation, Stord Rheumatism Association, Kvinnherrad Rheumatism Association, and Else Mustad's Foundation.
Norway: Religious bent of Constitution violates Human Rights(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Incoming Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg (Labor) is himself not a member of the State Church.
But Socialist Left Party leader Kristin Halvorsen and Center Party leader AslaugHaga both are.
In another attempt to curb the heavy privileges of the State Church, a complaint against Norway's education system has been launched before the European Human Rights Court in Strasbourg in 2002.
As disputes arise, says Lodgaard, "the European Union may favour Russian claims over Norway's because Moscow is more important to the EU than Oslo."
The sense of having to fend for itself was reflected in the call by the leader of Norway's strongly anti-EU Centre Party, Aslaug Marie Haga, for a military presence in the Barents Sea, "to secure Norwegian interests."
The world's third-largest oil exporter after Russia and Saudi Arabia would be a rich prize for the European Union, but one Scandinavian official in Washington said: "The political climate in Norway needs to change before we can think of tackling EU membership again, and that isn't likely any time soon."
