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Introductory Remarks by Foreign Minister Jan Petersen
Washington DC, 4 April 2003
Nuclear Safety in Northwestern Russia – Next steps towards realising the G8 Global Partnership against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction
I would like to begin by thanking NTI president Charles Curtis for everything he has done to make this conference possible.

I would also like thank Senator Lugar for hosting the conference in this historical and impressive building.

We are gathered here in the shadow of the war in Iraq – a war I hope will soon come to an end....

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11.00 Introductions

Helen Sigeland, Swedish institute (Sweden), Kristin Brudevoll, NORLA (Norway), Elisabeth Middelthon, MUNIN (Norway) and Iris Schwanck, Finnish Literature Information Centre (Finland) 11.30 Books for children and youngsters

Participants: Kjersti Scheen (Norway), Christina Bjork (Sweden) 13.15 Opening of the exhibition "The Life and Works of Arne Garborg (1851-1924)
(Norway) Refreshments 14.00 Scandinavian literature today

Introduction: Jelena Ratsjinskaja Author: Kjell Askildsen (Norway)

New Scandinavian literature today. Representatives from Scandinavian publishing houses:

Aschehoug (Norway), Bonniers, Alfabeta (Sweden) and MD Soderstrom & CO (Finland)
Bertil Torekull, author of a biography about the Founder of Ikea (Sweden)
Tor Bomann-Larsen, writer, historian and biographer (Norway)
Geir Lundestad, Head of the Norwegian Nobel institute, presenting his book "East-West-North-South" (Norway)

16.30 Coffee break

17.00 Russian literature in Scandinavia
Participants: Kristina Rotkirch, journalist, literary critic and translator, Marianne Bargum MD Soderstrom & Co publishing company (Finland) and translator Alf Glad (Norway).