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01 August 2023

Iceland increases its presence in Ukraine

The Ministries for Foreign Affairs for Iceland and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania have agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding that will grant diplomats and other representatives of Iceland access to office facilities at the Embassy of Lithuania in Kyiv.…

01 August 2023

Embassy operations of Iceland in Moscow suspended

Operations of the Embassy of Iceland in Moscow have been suspended as of today. Countries represented by the embassy will be covered by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Iceland.

26 July 2023

German flight squadron deployed to Iceland

A squadron of six Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets from the German Air Force will arrive in Keflavik to conduct a training mission in Icelandic airspace later this week. The German Air Force seeks to familiarize their crews and aircrafts with Icelandic airspace and operational challenges in the High North.…

10 July 2023

Icelandic Government advice following a volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula

Today, at 16:40 GMT, a volcanic eruption started when lava began flowing from a ground fissure measuring about one kilometer long, between Litli-Hrútur peak and Mt. Keilir on the Reykjanes peninsula. The site of the eruption is close to where similar eruptions have occurred twice in the past two years.

05 July 2023

Iceland provides equipment for Ukrainian EOD teams

Iceland, together with the Nordic countries and Lithuania, has since March this year been leading an EOD training programme in Lithuania. Iceland has decided in connection with the training to provide roughly 50 million ISK worth of basic EOD equipment for the Ukrainian teams that can be used during the training and later brought back with the teams to Ukraine.

29 June 2023

Excerpt from the Report of the Minister for Foreign Affairs to the Parliament

The report provides an overview of Iceland's foreign relations and the main policy issues and events in that field in 2022.

29 June 2023

Security Forum on Critical Undersea Infrastructure held in Iceland

Representatives from all the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) participant nations and partners came together at Keflavik Air Base, Iceland, this week for a Security Forum on Critical Undersea Infrastructure. The forum brought together more than 70 experts for a structured facilitator-led discussions on hybrid threats to critical undersea infrastructure.

21 June 2023

Nordic Defence Ministers meet in Iceland

The Nordic Ministers of Defence met in Iceland for a two-day meeting where they discussed Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, closer cooperation between the Nordic countries in security and defence matters, and the forthcoming NATO Summit in Vilnius. Iceland hosted the meeting on behalf of the Swedish chairmanship of the Nordic defence cooperation (NORDEFCO).…

13 June 2023

Joint statement by Joint Expeditionary Force ministers

Defence Ministers from Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) partner nations met in Amsterdam today to discuss the current situation in Ukraine and explore how the JEF can respond to, and further mitigate, the security threats to our nations, including hybrid challenges.

09 June 2023

Iceland suspends embassy operations in Moscow

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iceland has decided to suspend operations of the Embassy of Iceland in Moscow from August 1st.

01 June 2023

JEF deploys its Headquarters to Iceland

The Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) led by the United Kingdom with the Nordic countries, the Baltic countries and the Netherlands will exercise the deployment of its London-based headquarters to Iceland in June.

31 May 2023

Training for Ukrainian soldiers in combat medicine

Iceland has joined a UK-led training programme for Ukrainian soldiers. The programme aims to train trainers in combat medicine so that they can pass on their knowledge to other soldiers in the field.