Media Advisory: Minister to Attend International Conference

The Honourable Shawn Skinner, Minister of Innovation, Trade and Rural Development, is attending the Nordic Atlantic Cooperation (NORA) Conference and Project Development Seminars in Reykjavik, Iceland, on May 17-18. As part of the conference, Minister Skinner will speak on Tuesday, May 18, on the value of increased cooperation and collaboration of northern jurisdictions as a means of stimulating economic development. The conference will take place at the Hilton Reykjavik Nordica Hotel.

NORA is a regional committee under the Nordic Council of Ministers' regional political program and functions as an intergovernmental collaborative agency and facilitator. It is financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers and its work is supported by funding from the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, and the west coast of Norway.

The organization is committed to identifying and facilitating transatlantic cooperation. As part of its work, it is targeting greater collaboration with its neighbours to the west including Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut, and Nova Scotia.

For more information on NORA, please visit www.nora.fo. 

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Media contact:
Scott Barfoot
Director of Communications
Department of Innovation, Trade and Rural Development
709-729-4570, 690-6290
scottbarfoot@gov.nl.ca 

2010 05 14                                                    9:25 a.m.