Icelandic Foreign Minister, Ossur Skarphedinsson this evening said he believes it would be very difficult for the Nordic nations to freeze their loans to Iceland. Read the full story

The foreign ministers of Iceland and the United Kingdom will hold a telephone meeting this evening specifically to discuss the Icesave issue. Read the full story

Ossur Skarphedinsson, Iceland’s Foreign Minister, says he no longer intends to travel to India with President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson – a comment seen as proof of personal hard feelings between the left-wing government and Iceland’s left-wing president, formerly seen by many as natural allies. Read the full story

Ossur Skarphedinsson, the Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs believes that Icelandic membership of the European Economic Area is not endangered by the ongoing Icesave dispute. He described such talk as “preposterous”. Vigdis Hauksdottir, MP for the Progressive Party asked Skarphedinsson about the issue in parliament yesterday. Read the full story

The Icelandic Foreign Minister and the country’s former Minister for Health, who resigned on Thursday, were interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s World at One programme Friday lunchtime. Read the full story

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO Secretary General, is in Iceland today. The visit the new NATO chief’s first official visit to an alliance member nation. Read the full story

The Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ossur Skarphedinsson, today made a formal complaint on comments made by the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, during a session of Parliamentary question time. Minister Skarphedinsson called in the British Charge d’Affaires to Iceland to deliver a protest. The Ambassador of Iceland to the United Kingdom has also delivered a letter to 10 Downing Street. Read the full story