Nordic and Swedish battalions

Norwegian editor of Nordisk Psykologi (Nordic Psychology)

The campaign in Nordic and Baltic countries

495. Formal Nordic and international cooperation on culture is ensured through, for example, Greenland s membership of the Nordic Council, the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC), which represents about 115,000 Inuits living in the Arctic area.

The position taken by several Nordic countries to include those persecuted by non state agents within the purview of the 1951 Convention was welcomed by another delegation.

'Vanadis' is another name for the Nordic goddess Freyja

Expert in the Nordic Committee on Penal Law, 1988 .

In 2002 2003 a campaign against trafficking in women in the Nordic and Baltic countries was organised on the initiative of the Nordic Council of Ministers.

(on behalf of the five Nordic countries and South Africa)

The Model Provisions take into account other international efforts. Those include the European Union Convention on Insolvency Proceedings, the European Convention on Certain International Aspects of Bankruptcy ( Istanbul Convention , 1990), the Montevideo Private International Law Treaties of 1889 and 1940, the Convention regarding Bankruptcy between Nordic States (1933) as well as the Havana Convention of 1928 ( Bustamante Code ).

The institution is to contribute to the dissemination of Nordic art and culture in Greenland and to the dissemination of Greenlandic art and culture in the Nordic countries.

38. The Nordic countries welcomed the work of the Working Group on International Contract Practices and the preparation by that body of a draft Convention on Assignment in Receivables Financing.

416. In this context it should be mentioned that, since 1984 and in line with two other home rule areas in the Nordic area, Greenland participates in Nordic cooperation.

The Nordic countries strongly supported the Commission's approach in draft article 7.

The Nordic countries agreed with the view that article 19 of the Vienna Convention established the presumption of freedom to formulate reservations, which was substantially different from the presumption of validity of reservations.

Mainstreaming disability has also been addressed within the framework of Nordic development cooperation.

The Nordic Baltic Task Force against Trafficking in Human Beings has been formed.

The assistance provided by the Nordic countries had significantly contributed to those achievements.

Contributions to other multilateral institutions were also identified in four of these national communications (FIN Nordic Development Fund, European Community) (ISL Nordic Environment Finance Corporation) (BEL, NZL International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)).

Iceland's a Nordic country, so, like Norway, it's able to tap into the system.

Membership and advisory functions in various expert committees, including doctoral committees at Nordic universities.

The Nordic countries believed, moreover, that the provisions on diplomatic protection should, in the not too distant future, be adopted in the form of a convention, thus enhancing clarity and predictability in an important field of law.

Only in the Nordic countries did women hold 40 per cent of the seats in parliament.

The Federation had also been following the pilot study in the UNDP Nordic office in Copenhagen.

In addition, the Nordic countries fully supported the obligations contained in draft articles 16 and 17.

The Nordic experience also belies conservatives claim that a large social welfare state weakens incentives to work and save. National saving in the Nordic countries averages more than 20 of national income, compared to around 10 in the US.

The Nordic countries supported the flexible approach in the commentary to draft article 8, which established that the term refugee was not necessarily restricted to persons falling within the definition contained in the Refugee Convention and its Protocol.

Income levels are higher on average in the US, but mainly because the Nordic countries work fewer hours per week. In any case, all of the Nordic countries have very high incomes, and Norway s per capita income actually exceeds the US.

This participation is carried out on a basis of equality in that the Danish Parliament has given seats in its Nordic Council delegation to two members of the Greenland Home Rule Parliament, and in that the members of the Greenland Home Rule Parliament attend the meetings of the Nordic Council of Ministers, which is the formal forum for intergovernmental cooperation between the five Nordic countries.

1994 1995 Editor of the Nordic Journal of International Law since then Member of its Editorial Board

Estonia actively participates in the fight against trafficking in human beings in the Nordic and Baltic region.

Lithuania had concluded readmission agreements with the Nordic countries, the Visegrád countries and most European Union countries.

12. As for the Nordic countries, when they found a reservation inadmissible, it was their practice to object, stating that the objection did not preclude the entry into force in its entirety of the convention between the parties concerned.

Statements were made by representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran, China, Finland (on behalf of the Nordic countries), Norway (on behalf of the Nordic countries), Austria, the Republic of Korea, the Netherlands, Spain, India, Belarus, Italy, Portugal, Germany, Malaysia and Canada.

(b) Nordic Seminar on Implementation of Humanitarian Law, Lund, 11 12 September 1995 (report No. 21). 6. Resources

STOCKHOLM The Nordic countries economies are performing well, and a part of the reason is that they are gradually reforming their social model, adapting it to new realities in ways that respond to people s demands. But there is nothing uniquely Nordic about this change.

The Nordic countries were fully committed to ensuring that the forthcoming negotiations on a final text were successfully concluded.

The Nordic countries welcomed the suggestion that the term self contained regimes should be discarded as it was misleading.

The Nordic countries therefore welcomed the thought being given to the role of customary law and general legal principles.

The problem might disappear if all States adopted the practice advocated by the Nordic countries of severing incompatible reservations.

One last example is that recently we, like last summer, we won the competition to design a Nordic national bank.

The Nordic Cochrane Group were trying to get a hold of the data on that to bring it all together.

Ida Elisabeth Koch, The Justiciability of Indivisible Rights , in Nordic Journal of International Law, 72 3 39, 2003, p. 29.

In that context, her Government strongly supported the activities of the Nordic Baltic Task Force against Trafficking in Human Beings.

438. The Commission heard statements by the observers for Norway (on behalf of the Nordic countries) (23rd) and Poland (23rd).