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	Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson (born 14 May 1943, in Ísafjörður, Iceland) is the fifth and current President of Iceland, from 1996 to present, re-elected unopposed in 2000, and was re-elected for a third term in 2004.
		He was a professor at the University of Iceland for political science, served as Member of Althing, was Minister of Finance (1988–1991) and served as chairman of the left People's Alliance (1987–1995).
		He is the first president to use the authorization given in the 26th article of the Icelandic constitution to veto a law from Alþingi, in which case the law in question would be put to a national referendum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/%C3%93lafur_Ragnar_Gr%C3%ADmsson (401 words)

	President of Iceland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The President of Iceland (Icelandic: Forseti Íslands) is Iceland's elected head of state.
		The president is elected to a four-year term by universal adult suffrage and has limited powers.
		The current incumbent is Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson who was re-elected in the 2004 presidential election, having been first elected in 1996.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/President_of_Iceland (138 words)

	Iceland - Simple English Wikipedia
		Iceland is 300 kilometers east of Greenland and 1000 kilometers west of Norway.
		In 1918, Iceland got many powers of its own, but the king of Denmark was still king of Iceland.
		In 1980, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir was elected president of Iceland.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iceland (635 words)

	Iceland Naturally Iceland Food and Tourism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Iceland was settled by Norsemen from Scandinavia and Celts from the British Isles.
		Both the language and culture of Iceland were purely Scandinavian from the outset, but there are traces of Celtic influence in some of the Eddaic poems, in personal and place names and in the appearance of present-day Icelanders who have a higher percentage of the dark and red hair than the other Nordic nations.
		Icelandic is the national language and it has changed very little from the original tongue spoken by the Norse settlers.
	www.icelandnaturally.com /abouticeland.shtml (3387 words)

	Iceland on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The climate is relatively mild and humid (especially in the west and south), owing to the proximity of the North Atlantic Drift; however, N and E Iceland have a polar, tundralike climate.
		Kristjárn Eldjárn was elected president in 1968 and reelected in 1972 and 1976.
		Vigdís Finnbogadóttir was elected president in 1980, thus becoming the world's first popularly elected female head of state; she was reelected in 1984, 1988, and 1992.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/iceland_history.asp (2322 words)

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		If the President dies or resigns prior to the expiry of his term, a new President shall be elected for a period ending on the 31st of July of the fourth year from the election.
		The President may be removed from office before his term expires if approved by a majority vote in a plebiscite called pursuant to a resolution adopted by three-fourths of the Members of Althingi.
		The President may transfer officials from one office to another on the condition that their official remuneration is not reduced, and that they have an option between such transfer and retirement with a pension, or old-age allowance, as prescribed by law.
	www.cmseducation.org /wconsts/iceland.html (3168 words)

	Dartmouth News - Lecture by the President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson - 11/02/02
		In Iceland's case these were the Vikings who a thousand years ago ventured even further and crossed the ocean to discover the great continent in the west, five hundred years before the European exodus began the adventure which later became known as the United States of America.
		In many ways Vilhjálmur Stefansson was shaped by these centuries-old Icelandic traditions on which the identity and culture of an island nation in the far north was based, a heritage that would acquire new value during the settlement by Icelandic immigrants in the US and Canada in the second half of the 19th century.
		Iceland has recently taken over the responsibility of chairing the Arctic Council and we have declared that one of our emphases will be a broad assessment of human development in the region, in order to provide an overview of sustainable development and identify the factors that affect the well-being of the inhabitants.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~news/releases/2002/nov/110102.html (2692 words)

	Seacology - News
		Because of Seacology's efforts to help conserve Iceland's environment and culture, Cox was invited to a special meeting with Iceland President Ã“lafur Ragnar GrÃmsson at his home.
		Cox was also hosted at the home of former Iceland President Vigdis Finnbogadottir, the first woman to be elected president of any country in the world.
		Cox was accompanied in his travels by noted Icelandic environmentalist and television personality Omar Ragnarsson, who flew him in his bush airplane to remote parts of Iceland's interior wilderness.
	www.seacology.org /news/display.cfm?id=168 (519 words)

	Scandinavian Review: Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		President Grímsson is also an assiduous champion of tourism and the environment and strong in his advocacy of proper restriction on the former to protect the latter.
		When Iceland joined the United Nations and NATO nearly 60 years ago Iceland was for quite some time what could be called a "small kid on the block." But now there are more than 60 small states in the world.
		The optimism of Iceland and its president is boundless.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3760/is_200410/ai_n9453807 (1139 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Newsnight \| Archive \| Hydrogen Economy
		Iceland is full of natural energy and by harnessing these resources, its waterfalls and hot springs, it wants to become the world's first hydrogen economy.
		Iceland's President lives in a house which was once the seat of the island's Danish rulers.
		Iceland is in a way serving us the model of the society of the future.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/newsnight/archive/2208013.stm (1280 words)

	FAO Press Release 98/65 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		President Grimsson called for the conclusion of multilateral and regional agreements on preserving those fish stocks, that go beyond the national boundaries of the 200-mile economic zones.
		President Grimsson underlined that "Iceland is probably the only developed country which has succeeded in building a highly profitable market-oriented fishing industry without a system of state subsidies and without destroying the fish stocks.
		President Grimsson, who was also accompanied by the Minister of Fisheries, discussed with FAO Director-General Dr. Jacques Diouf a series of agricultural, fisheries and development issues.
	www.fao.org /WAICENT/OIS/PRESS_NE/PRESSENG/1998/pren9865.htm (315 words)

	Council of Women World Leaders - The Council / Bio of Vigdis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In 1988 she won the presidency for a third term, with ninety-two percent of the votes against a female candidate.
		In her period of office President VigdÃs devoted herself to the cultivation of the identity and integrity of the nation: its language, its individual and distinctive culture, and its youth.
		She is a champion of the current reforestation drive in Iceland, actively promoting the planting of trees in Iceland throughout her presidency, and has strongly supported the great task of land reclamation that is being done in the eroded areas of Iceland.
	www.womenworldleaders.org /Content.aspx?id=78 (634 words)

	Dietrich Fischer, A Peace Candidate for President of Iceland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Iceland is in a unique position to promote a new agenda for world peace, based on its history of the Althing, the world's oldest democratic legislative assembly, established in 930.
		As the American troops are now scheduled to leave their military base in Iceland, he proposes to use it as headquarters of an international peace-keeping force.
		A smaller country like Iceland is in a much better position to undertake peace initiatives than one of the big powers, like the United States or Russia, or the former colonial powers UK, France, Germany and Italy, because they would be suspected of pursuing their own interests.
	www.transnational.org /forum/meet/2004/Fischer_Iceland.html (1354 words)

	CBC News: Venture - Powering the Future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson hopes the country will be a role model for others, "we hope to show that this will be embraced by society, that it is possible to plan modern cities on the basis of a new form of energy."
		That led to the formation of New Iceland Energy, a company that would prepare Iceland's infrastructure for the energy revolution it is facing.
		Iceland's president, Ragnar Olafur Grimsson says his country will be an example for others.
	www.cbc.ca /venture/fuelcell/iceland.html (756 words)

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		The President is the fifth in the 59-year history of the Republic of Iceland since 1944.
		The Icelandic coat of arms is a shield with a silvery cross in a sky-blue field with a fiery red cross in the middle of the silvery cross.
		By presidential decree in 1947, Icelandic nationals who are awarded foreign medals must obtain the permission of the President of Iceland before they are accepted and worn.
	www.saintolav.com /pages/912409/page912409.html (1561 words)

	Iceland
		Icelanders have one of the highest life expectancies in the world: 81.3 years for women and 76.4 years for men.
		The Icelandic climate was much harsher when the first settlers arrived in the 9th century, thus only the strong would have survived.
		About 10% of Icelanders have a family name that is passed down from generation to generation, as is done in Europe and North America (e.g., Mary and Joe Smith's kids also have the last name Smith).
	www.eveandersson.com /iceland (2211 words)

	WIC Biography - Vigdis Finnbogadottir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Elected as President of Iceland in 1980, and re-elected in 1984 and 1988, Vigdis Finnbogadottir, heads the magnificent land in the north.
		The President was born on April 15, 1930 in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland.
		She was a member of Grima, the first experimental theatre group in Iceland, served as chairman of Alliance Francaise and has given lectures abroad on Icelandic culture.
	www.wic.org /bio/finnboga.htm (354 words)

	President for Peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Thor Magnusson, founder of Peace2000, launched his campaign for the President of Iceland today with the aim to change the office of the President to become a leading initative for world peace.
		Thor Magnusson founder of Peace2000 is a candidate and is appealing to the Icelandic voters for support to use the office of the President to launch a development institute for democracy and international peace keeping forces based on the original UN concept of common security.
		Iceland has a unique history as a country of peace and its parliament, the Althing, founded 930 is the oldest democratic assembly in the world.
	www.althing.us (1038 words)

	Icelandic president reckons small states make perfect IT labs
		Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, President of Iceland, said that it is a paradox of our time that the giant economies form a technological elite but small societies are probably better suited to be laboratories.
		Iceland has all the characteristics of an advanced Western society and experience tells us that the general Icelandic public is very ready to embrace technological innovations.
		Iceland has committed to creating hydrogen vehicles which just emit steam, and we'll be catching a bus that uses that gas later on today.
	www.theinquirer.net /?article=12887 (347 words)

	Dartmouth News - Iceland President to visit - 10/21/02
		He is the fifth President in the 58-year history of Iceland and holds a doctorate in political science.
		He was a professor at the University of Iceland and later a Member of Althingi, the Icelandic legislative assembly, and has served as Minister of Finance.
		Stefansson was born in 1879 in the Icelandic community of Gimli in Manitoba, Canada.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~news/releases/2002/oct/102102a.html (471 words)

	iceland
		Icelanders are proud of having the oldest existing parliament in the world, Althingi, founded in 930 in Thingvellir.
		The capital of Iceland, Reykjavík, is situated on the south-west coast of the island with a population of 100.000.
		Icelandic is a Scandinavian language, in fact it is nearly the same that was spoken in the Nordic countries thousand years ago.
	www.hi.is /~imsic/booklet.html (1600 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Pres. Hinckley, Iceland leader dedicate Sp. Fork memorial
		SPANISH FORK — President Gordon B. Hinckley of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints rededicated a memorial on Saturday to the first pioneers from Iceland who began settling the region 150 years ago.
		The president of Iceland, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, participated, marking his second visit to Spanish Fork since 1997, when he came to observe the 100-year celebration of the Icelandic Association of Utah.
		The Iceland of that era was among the poorest countries in the world, he said.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600144288,00.html (654 words)

	President Bush Welcomes Iceland Prime Minister to White House
		Iceland has been a steady friend of the United States of America, and they have been an important friend.
		President, the Republican National Committee says that John Edwards is disingenuous, inexperienced and unaccomplished.
		The Vice President called him early this morning to say -- after the announcement was made -- to say that he welcomes him to the race, and as do I. And I look forward to a good, spirited contest.
	www.state.gov /p/eur/rls/rm/34190.htm (936 words)

	President Olafur Grimsson of Iceland at Commonwealth North
		President, we applaud your new style of leadership and we certainly hope that we are up to the task.
		Iceland now is the top country in the world in Internet usage, in home pages per thousand inhabitants, in personal computers, in mobile phones.
		The Icelandic cod stock is one of the few cod stocks in the world that is being built up, therefore, we are always a little bit worried when the international media says the cod stocks are being destroyed everywhere then mentions Iceland as one of the examples of countries that are destroying the cod stock.
	www.commonwealthnorth.org /transcripts/grimsson.html (2309 words)

	U.S. Newswire : Releases : "President of Iceland Named to the Special Olympics International Board; Photo Available" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		As the current president of Iceland, Grimsson is the first head of state appointed to the board.
		He was Iceland's Minister of Finance in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and a member of the Parliament for a number of years.
		In the '80s and '90s, Grimsson was also the president of Parliamentarians for Global Action, a network of political leaders from nearly 100 countries, working closely with many presidents, prime ministers and other international leaders on a number of successful international projects.
	releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=28994 (588 words)

	President of Iceland urged to work for peace in the Middle East or resign from office (by Thor Magnusson / Peace 2000) ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Thor Magnusson, founder of Peace 2000 and former Presidential Candidate of Iceland, delivered an appeal to President of Iceland, Mr.
		In light of the support Iceland gave to the founding of the state of Israel, and recent escalation towards an all out war in the Middle East, the reticent response of the Icelandic authorities can only be described as a total lack of responsibility.
		It is important that an Icelandic peace initiative is launched in the area before the situation develops into a wider conflict or even a world war.
	www.mediamonitors.net /thormagnusson1.html (1119 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Warm chat with VIP from 'cool' isle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		A company called 66e George W. Bush of Iceland, stopped by the 66sident, there are quite a few things his country is playing catch-up to with the rest of the world.
		He took the president and the first lady to lunch Saturday and to a 30-minute meeting with LDS President Gordon B. Hinckley, so the job has its perks.
		I had a chance to ask the president of Iceland a question, so I asked him the obvious.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,590040268,00.html (451 words)

	President of Iceland asked to pardon hate speech charge - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Hlynur Freyr Vigfússon, former vice-chairman of the defunct Félag íslenskra þjóðernissinna (Association of Icelandic Nationalists), has requested a presidential pardon from hate speech charges against him handed down in 2002.
		President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, who is married to London jew Dorrit Mousaieff, has not publically addressed Fischer's comments or sought charges under the nation's UN-inspired laws against racist speech.
		Now Iceland's president must decide the validity of the false law in the face of international interest in the Fischer case.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=196333 (270 words)

	School Welcomes President of Iceland
		President Grímsson is among the dignitaries visiting North Carolina as part of the Special Olympics.
		On Sunday Grímsson hosted a reception at the Carolina Club for all of the Icelandic athletes, their families, coaches and members of the Icelandic community residing in the triangle.
		Dean John Stamm and his wife, Carol, were among the UNC dignitaries in attendance at the reception.
	www.dent.unc.edu /news/archives/1999/070199.htm (177 words)

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