54% Want to End Defense Agreement with US 20. júní 2006 12:48 According to the results of a Gallup poll sponsored by Social Democrat MP Helgi Hjörvar, 53.9% of the Icelanders surveyed are in favour of Iceland terminating its defence agreement with the US. 24.8% were against the idea, while 21% had no opinion. The survey comes in the wake of an announcement from the US State Department earlier this spring that the NATO base in Keflavík would be severely downsized. The defence agreement between the two countries - wherein the US pledges to provide for Iceland's defence - still stands, however, and talks are currently underway to work out how this agreement will now be upheld. Minister of Foreign Affairs Valgerður Sverrisdóttir has already said that the defence agreement will not be suspended while talks are ongoing. - pfn News News in English Mest lesið Það sem við vitum og vitum ekki um manndrápið hrottalega Innlent „Þetta er risastór áfangi og gleðitíðindi fyrir Kópavogsbæ“ Innlent Sólrún fundin á Spáni Innlent Hætta við uppbygginguna vegna „neikvæðrar umræðu“ Innlent Sendi Dönum tóninn Erlent Mátti binda barn á höndum og fótum og kitla það Innlent Rak sex eftir fund með umdeildum samsæringi Erlent Prestur sakar oddvita um ólýðræðislega hallarbyltingu í veiðifélagi Innlent Stoppaður af vegfaranda sem spurði: „Hvað er þetta?“ Innlent Russell Brand ákærður fyrir nauðganir og kynferðisbrot Erlent
According to the results of a Gallup poll sponsored by Social Democrat MP Helgi Hjörvar, 53.9% of the Icelanders surveyed are in favour of Iceland terminating its defence agreement with the US. 24.8% were against the idea, while 21% had no opinion. The survey comes in the wake of an announcement from the US State Department earlier this spring that the NATO base in Keflavík would be severely downsized. The defence agreement between the two countries - wherein the US pledges to provide for Iceland's defence - still stands, however, and talks are currently underway to work out how this agreement will now be upheld. Minister of Foreign Affairs Valgerður Sverrisdóttir has already said that the defence agreement will not be suspended while talks are ongoing. - pfn
News News in English Mest lesið Það sem við vitum og vitum ekki um manndrápið hrottalega Innlent „Þetta er risastór áfangi og gleðitíðindi fyrir Kópavogsbæ“ Innlent Sólrún fundin á Spáni Innlent Hætta við uppbygginguna vegna „neikvæðrar umræðu“ Innlent Sendi Dönum tóninn Erlent Mátti binda barn á höndum og fótum og kitla það Innlent Rak sex eftir fund með umdeildum samsæringi Erlent Prestur sakar oddvita um ólýðræðislega hallarbyltingu í veiðifélagi Innlent Stoppaður af vegfaranda sem spurði: „Hvað er þetta?“ Innlent Russell Brand ákærður fyrir nauðganir og kynferðisbrot Erlent