behalf to have accepted this invitation, and let there be no doubts that we have very high expectations from your visit on all accounts. Our country is small, if we judge this geographically, but if we include [...] We have lived here for almost two and a half centuries. Our culture is vibrant and potent, deriving from the natural given circumstances governing our ancestor’s environment, which was western Norway, the [...] aspiring to the highest international standards. The best we have to offer however is that guests from abroad may meet us as a people exceptionally rich in culture and art, and which we are more than willing

unknown to virtually all Americans. Faroese tourism and industry on a whole should benefit greatly from this. It will be much easier to establish relations with the world, which to a great extent is bound [...] first ever female president. I have been told, that one day when my grandfather and another skipper from the countryside met in one of Tórshavn’s narrow alleys, one of them uttered: “It is not small men

wealth has flowed from the bounty of the sea for centuries. Ever since our first fishing schooners took to the seas in the 1870s, we have provided the world with nutritious food from our pristine waters [...] onslaught of the sea for untold eons. Our society has experienced severe challenges, from the Black Death to economic chaos, from marauding pirates to devastating storms, but we remain ever hopeful and confident [...] in the Faroes are endeavoring to enter into a variety of collaborations with ocean research centers from around the globe to create a world-class oceanographic center here in the Faroes. It is hoped that

riskspreading, but also an opportunity to cross borders, exchange ideas and extend boundaries. A visit from a former great president of the United States and a former UN weapons inspector is a rare event and

should like other nations to learn from our experience with regard to this crucial area: This is the faith from which we start: Men shall know commonwealth again From bitter searching of the heart. To play [...] global prospects look grim indeed. The spectacle of leaders from some countries in the Northern hemisphere rushing to grab as much as they can from the polar ice-cream, or what lies beneath it, is hardly edifying [...] Shetland and the Orkneys fell under the harsh dominion of the Scots, the Faroes eventually passed from Norway to be governed for centuries, at an agreeable distance, by the more easy-going Danes. Thanks

by co-religionists who wait for their chance to declare HOLY WAR! Will they ask you: ARE YOU FREE FROM SIN? Can you put your hand on your heart and - to the American people - declare a clear YES HARDLY

municipality, which has a lot to offer its citizens in terms of social services and facilities, ranging from day nurseries to old people’s homes and everything in between. Furthermore, extensive projects are

of kilometers divide the United States from the Faroe Islands. But this did not deter the Norse a thousand years ago. In fragile wooden boats they set sail from the Northern seas across the Atlantic and [...] becoming independent parts of globalization. I would also like to extend a warm welcome to Mr. Hans Blix from our sister nation Sweden. ??Your experience and knowledge is our learning and inspiration. ??

elected for two periods, spanning from 1993 to 2001. With his forty six years of age, he is the third youngest President ever to hold this office. He represented from the very beginning a generation shift [...] will find it quite hard to believe we are actually having this visit in our country. I cannot refrain from thinking back to October in 1986, when the then United States President, Mr Ronald Reagan and the [...] a resurrection after the persecution he experienced. If the advice of Mr Blix had been adhered to from the very beginning, the war in Iraq may have been avoided, which it has to be said is a large sorrowful

ahead. Globalisation offers possibilities but also strains the economic sphere whilst growing demands from citizens and the labour market create outcomes of apt and flexible welfare services of high standards [...] well-being and reliance; and which • at the same times generates innovation, cooperation and growth. From a liberalistic market philosophy these two dimensions may seem antagonistic to one another. Yet, this [...] strengthened. Solely based on these principles, we ought to be capable of overcoming the challenges from global economic competition, the tendencies to increased social marginalisation as well as changes