The event, held in cooperation with the U.S. Department of State and the Icelandic Embassy in Washington, DC, will celebrate 70 successful years of diplomatic relations between the United States and Iceland. It will feature speakers covering a range of topics, from the most promising investment sectors to Iceland's competitive energy costs, to responsible fisheries to tourism.

On Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012, representatives from the embassies of 10 countries will share the Abramson Recital Hall at the American University Katzen Center to read poetry from their countries for the 2012 Small Nations Poetry Reading.

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January Newsletter from the Embassy of Iceland in Washington, D.C.

The Icelandic Ministry of Education, Science and Culture awards annually a number of scholarships to foreign students for study of the Icelandic language, literature and history at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík.

"Three years later, the unemployment rate has fallen. Tourism has increased. The economy is growing. The government successfully raised money from investors in the summer for the first time since the crisis."

Ambassador Gudmundur Árni Stefánsson presented today to the Honorable Barack Obama, the President of the United States of America, the Letters of Credence accrediting him as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Iceland to the United States of America at the Oval Office.

A new Cabinet was unveiled in Iceland on 31 December. During the reshuffle former finance minister Mr Steingrímur J. Sigfússon was named Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture as well as Minister of Economic Affairs. Mrs Oddný G. Harðardóttur was promoted into Cabinet as Minister of Finance. Mr Jón Bjarnason, Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture, and Mr Árni Páll Árnason, Minister of Economic Affairs, stepped down from the Cabinet. Other ministers retained their posts.

The Embassy of Iceland is closed January 2nd 2012 due to a federal holiday in the USA. In case of an emergency please contact the Foreign Ministry at telephone number 011-354-545-9900

The IMF, International Monitory Fund, has released this video on the positive economic development in Iceland these last three years.

Kristján Jóhannsson Icelandic tenor performed repeatedly without a break for 12 hours at the Abrons Art Center at 466 Grand St. on the Lower Side in New York Saturday November 19.

The November Newsletter from the Embassy of Iceland in Washington D.C.

The Supreme Court of Iceland today ruled in a case concerning the Emergency Act of October 6th 2008. The ruling entails that the law and associated acts stands undisputed.

The five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Iceland and Nordic Innovation created a Nordic food day for all 130 DC public schools.

Encouraging a nation-wide participation, The President of Iceland, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson has invited tourists to enjoy pancakes at his home in an effort to make tourists feel welcome in Iceland.

The Tibor de Nagy Gallery is pleased to present its third exhibition of paintings by the much-admired Icelandic painter Louisa Matthiasdottir. The artist is known for her brightly-colored and strongly geometric realist paintings.

Björn Thoroddsen, the famous Icelandic Jazz guitarist and his equally famous colleague Robin Nolan will perform at Blues Alley on Monday, 24 October.

Embassy's September Newsletter (Vol.3 No.11)