interested in our stories about the Faroe Islands as a Tolkien-like country and about the boy who found a watch that had travelled all the way from the North Pole. But in order to sell the Faroes to his [...] to this tiny country, the situation had changed. The last couple of months he had noticed that the islands were on the front page of several travel sections in major American newspapers. The Faroese newspaper [...] coincident that the Faroe Islands suddenly get huge world-media coverage. It turns out that the origin of the recent flood of stories is to be found in the cancelled visit by Bill Clinton in May. Creating

The first invitation was given by Editor-in-Chief Jan Müller in Copenhagen in 1999. Another invitation was delivered, together with a Present, by the Danish Embassy in Pretoria on the occasion of Nelson [...] being brought to bear on some of the seemingly intractable problems we face in the world today. The reason I am inviting you and your fellow Council members to the Faroe Islands is because of our strong [...] objection to us also presenting the invitation for the Council of Elders to meet in the Faroe Islands to him. I should also mention that the Government and Parliament of the Faroe Islands are fully behind

and the environment in Reykjavik were broadcast around the world. We of course aspire to the same ambition, which is that when two such dignitaries visit our country this will assist in the promotion of [...] President ever to hold this office. He represented from the very beginning a generation shift in the corridors of power in the world’s largest superpower. In the international history books, Mr Clinton has firmly [...] this was the town, which was at the centre off, and created the framework for one of the most important meetings ever held regarding the dismantling of the nuclear weapons race. Photos of the two men and

one of the leading banks in the country, I wish to welcome you to the Faroe Islands. Your visit transcends mental barriers. It shows the surrounding world and ourselves that the Faroe Islands and the Faroese [...] Tinganes in Tórshavn and the White House in Washington is immense. Thousands of kilometers divide the United States from the Faroe Islands. But this did not deter the Norse a thousand years ago. In fragile [...] Bill Clinton writes in his memoir that despite having been the President of the world’s most powerful country for 8 years he nevertheless always felt like a servant. The Presidency was merely a loan and

As one of the smallest capitals in the world, it is a great honor for us to receive a former president of the United States of America, accompanied by one of the most important UN officials in history. [...] North, and right across the same fjord the longest landing quay in the country was recently finished. We have several industrial areas in the municipality and more are underway. Expansions are taking place [...] work. The municipality has an extensive network of harbor complexes, located in Tórshavn and the villages belonging to the municipality. We are currently expanding at Oyrareingir by Kollafjørður in the North

Shia Muslim country in the Middle East? So, in addition to honesty, humility and the revival of the principles of true humanity, the world seems to be in need of the wisdom of professional statesmen. Quoting [...] island groups, the Faroes were, in the Middle Ages, dependencies or tax lands of the Kingdom of Norway. However, while Shetland and the Orkneys fell under the harsh dominion of the Scots, the Faroes eventually [...] of the Nordic House, which opened here in 1983. But our cultural connection to Sweden is older, being rooted in the pan-Scandinavian outlook of the second half of the nineteenth century. We sing the songs

great pleasure the mounting interest in our fair isles and the growing collaboration between the Faroese business community and the world at large, especially with the United States. The arrival of such [...] from around the globe to create a world-class oceanographic center here in the Faroes. It is hoped that such a center will extend the world's knowledge of the sea. No doubt there will, in time, be many [...] Our country has launched upon an ambitious program, which has come to be known as Vision 2015. The goal is to enable the Faroe Islands to become on of the most progressive countries in the world. There

event that would draw the merciless and powerful light of the whole world’s projectors to the combatants in the Laugardals hall, Fischer and Spassky, as well as to the rest of the Icelandic society. This [...] today the Icelanders feel right at home in all the world’s marble halls. Perhaps the capital of a colony is not as interesting as the capital of a republic. But speaking of the chess effect, a world champion [...] doubts the fact that he was one of the rather capable ones in that office. Bush senior once said that the reason for his defeat in 1990 was the misfortune of being sandwiched between two of the finest

of the main goals of the student-exchange organisation AFS. - The organisation was established by some ambulance drivers from World War II, who said that the only way to achieve peace in the world was [...] they were in the presence of yet another possible future American president. The year in Arkansas was very important for Jens Olsen, he says, and it has influenced the choices he was made later in life. - [...] Clinton in the Faroes Apparantly, Bill Clinton has been in Faroese airspace before, and in May this year he was close to visiting the islands. But, weather allowing, today, October 1st, will be the first

meetings in the Faroes. Mr President, When you became President, the democratic part of the world was in need of a true leader. Both in your role as the Governor for Arkansas and the President for the world’s [...] by the intimate association with the sea. The sea around the Faroes – a sea, which encompasses the whole of the Northern hemisphere, and plays an all important role for the world’s climate and the climatic [...] and prepared to share with the rest of the world. The Faroes are therefore a country, which has much to offer the world. On top of this comes a unique geographical location in an area, which both commands