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About Iceland
Iceland is a refreshingly unconventional travel destination. The Icelandic nature is unspoilt, exotic and mystical with its spouting geysers, active volcanoes, tumbling waterfalls, towering mountains, vast lava plains and magical lakes. Iceland’s fjords, glaciers and highland plains present visitors with some of the most beautiful and enchanting places they will ever see, as well as a rare feeling of utter tranquillity.

For travelers on a quest for action, Iceland’s pristine nature offers great potential for outdoor activities such as snowmobiling, horse riding, cave exploring, hiking, swimming, skiing, river rafting, kayaking and mountain safaris on modified four-wheel drives, to name but a few. Iceland supports a surprisingly diverse Nordic flora and fauna and is an ideal place for ornithology enthusiasts, while also offering some of the world’s best whale watching destinations.

About Reykjavik
Reykjavík sometimes feels like a cosmopolitan capital and a tiny seaside village - all wrapped up in one. But Reykjavík has the best of both worlds; the qualities of a modern, forward-looking society complemented by a close connection to Iceland‚s beautiful and unspoilt nature.

Reykjavík’s legendary nightlife is bolstered by plentiful cultural and social happenings in addition to an abundance of first-class restaurants. The size of Reykjavik city centre is also limited enough to allow for easy navigation by foot. Reykjavík has been described as a young and daring city that is characterized by strong contrasts. Conveniently small, clean and safe, it is more or less free from the major problems that haunt many other capitals. Big city events are frequent, the winter lights festival finished recently with thousands of participants and more tourist at this time of the year than we are used to.

in Focus

23.5.2007

New Administration for Iceland's Government

New administration for Icelands government Prime Minister and leader of the Independence Party (Sjálfstaedisflokkurinn) Geir H. Haarde and the new Foreign Minister and leader of the Social Democratic Alliance (Samfylkingin) Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir introduced the arrangement of Iceland’s new governmental administration last night.

Haarde met with his party members at Valhöll, the Independence Party’s headquarters in Reykjavík, and introduced his agreement with Gísladóttir on a joint policy for the new administration and on the appointment of ministers.

The council of the Independence Party formally agreed to the organization of the new administration with applause, Morgunbladid reports.

Gísladóttir met with her party members at Saga Hotel in Reykjavík where the new arrangement of the administration was also formally accepted.

Today the Prime Minister will introduce the new administration to the President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson.

Haarde and Gísladóttir will then introduce their policy declaration at a press conference in Thingvellir national park outside Reykjavík, where Althingi, Iceland’s parliament, was founded in 930.

The two party leaders had held several meetings at Thingvellir while discussing the arrangement of the new administration, which has been nicknamed the Thingvellir administration, or “Thingvallastjórnin.”

A formal change of administration will take place tomorrow.

The cabinet of the new government has 12 ministries; some ministries were merged while others were divided. The Ministry for Trade and Commerce is now two separate ministries, while the Ministry of Fisheries and the Ministry of Agriculture were merged.

Other changes include local authorities being moved from the Ministry of Social Affairs to the Ministry of Transport and social security pension funds moved to the Ministry of Social Affairs from of the Ministry of Health.

Source: Iceland Review (www.icelandreview.com).

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