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      11 November 2019
      25 years since agreement reached on right to decide over your own body
      10 October 2019
      Prime Minister's address at the Arctic Circle october 10th. 2019
      25 September 2019
      Prime Minister's opening address at a meeting on UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
      23 September 2019
      Prime Minister's address at the UN Climate Action Summit
      20 October 2018
      New Geo-Political Reality in the West Nordic Area
      20 October 2018
      Introduction on Climate Change in Arctic Iceland
      21 October 2018
      Concluding remarks at the Arctic Circle Assembly
      29 October 2018
      Address at the 14th Annual NATO Conference on WMD Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
      06 November 2018
      Keynote address at a seminar on Security Challenges in Northern Europe
      14 January 2019
      Iceland’s priorities in the Arctic Council
      31 January 2019
      Address at the opening of the Maternity Wing and the Maternal and Child Health Centre of the Mangochi District Hospital
      15 February 2019
      Statement at a press conference on the occasion of the visit of US Secretary of State to Iceland
      25 February 2019
      Iceland's statement at the 40th session of the Human Rights Council
      26 February 2019
      Statement at the Yemen pledging conference in Geneva
      26 February 2019
      Statement at Human Rights Council on behalf of NB8-states
      04 March 2019
      Opening address at the seminar "Women, Business and the Law 2019"
      12 March 2019
      Speech at the 21st graduation ceremony of the UNU Fisheries Training Programme in Iceland
      12 April 2019
      Statement at an establishing event of World Bank's Human Rights and Development Trust Fund
      13 April 2019
      Statement at a World Bank Small States Ministerial roundtable
      03 May 2019
      Statement at the conference "10 Years On: Reassessing the Stoltenberg Report"
      07 May 2019
      Presentation of the Icelandic Chairmanship Program
      07 May 2019
      Statement at the 11th Arctic Council Ministerial meeting in Rovaniemi
      17 May 2019
      Statement at 129th Session of the Committee of Ministers, Council of Europe
      21 May 2019
      Opening address at Womenomics Barbershop conference
      21 May 2019
      Statement at Womenomics Nordic Business Conference
      23 May 2019
      Opening Address at the seminar "Doing Business in the Arctic"
      23 May 2019
      Iceland and the Arctic: Iceland´s Chairmanship in the Arctic Council 2019-2021
      19 June 2019
      Speech at Reykjavík meeting with EU ambassadors
      11 July 2019
      Address at the conference Safety & Protection of Journalists II: Towards a Shared Solution
      29 August 2019
      Opening Address at the conference Brexit - Looking Forward
      16 July 2019
      Prime Minister‘s VNR address at HLPF 2019 in New York
      16 July 2019
      Prime Minister's address at the UN ministerial meeting in New York - Voluntary National Review
      17 June 2019
      Prime Minister's address at the 75th anniversary of the Republic of Iceland
      01 May 2019
      Prime Minister's opening address at the Well-being Economic Governments workshop in Edinburgh
      05 April 2019
      Nordic Conference on Future of Work 4. - 5. April 2019 - Opening Address by Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland
      01 December 2018
      Prime Minister's address at the opening ceremony of Iceland's one-hundredth anniversary of sovereignty
      01 December 2018
      Prime Minister's address at the celebration of Iceland's one-hundredth anniversary of sovereignty
      07 December 2018
      Keynote Speech at the Iceland-India Business Seminar, New Delhi
      20 November 2018
      Prime Minister's address at Global Positive Forum "Iceland: a positive model in action"
      13 November 2018
      Katrín Jakobsdóttir's speeches at Sueddeutsche Economic Summit
      22 October 2018
      Prime Minister's address at the opening of the Arctic Circle - October 19th 2018
      24 September 2018
      Global Alliance to end trade in goods used for capital punishment and torture - Statement by the Minister
      24 September 2018
      A Call to Action to End Forced Labour, Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking - Statement by the Minister
      06 September 2018
      Iceland-China relations will continue to strengthen
      26 September 2018
      Statement at a High Level Event to mark 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, New York
      27 September 2018
      Statement at the Carbon Neutrality Coalition (CNC) Inaugural High-Level Meeting, New York
      28 September 2018
      Statement at the United Nations General Assembly General Debate
      02 October 2018
      Statement at the OECD Barbershop Conference, engaging men for gender equality
      30 May 2018
      Address at the Japanese Ocean Policy Research Institute (OPRI): “Sustainable Business in the Arctic”
      29 May 2018
      Address at the Japan National Press Club
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