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On the 30th of September 2006 for the first time in its history as an independent nation, Iceland was free of all foreign military forces or their representatives. A quiet and almost unnoticed ceremony took place at the Keflavik NATO base. American and Icelandic flags were lowered, folded, given to...
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fticelandunivojs:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/894 2023-08-20T04:07:21+02:00 Free at last Corgan, Michael T. 2006-12-15 application/pdf https://ojs.hi.is/index.php/irpa/article/view/b.2006.2.2.1 eng eng Stjórnsýslustofnun https://ojs.hi.is/index.php/irpa/article/view/b.2006.2.2.1/pdf_37 https://ojs.hi.is/index.php/irpa/article/view/b.2006.2.2.1 Icelandic Review of Politics & Administration; Vol. 2 No. 2 (2006) Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla; Bnd. 2 Nr. 2 (2006) 1670-679X 1670-6803 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Articles and speeches 2006 fticelandunivojs 2023-08-01T12:28:45Z On the 30th of September 2006 for the first time in its history as an independent nation, Iceland was free of all foreign military forces or their representatives. A quiet and almost unnoticed ceremony took place at the Keflavik NATO base. American and Icelandic flags were lowered, folded, given to representatives of the respective countries and the small official party drove away. Quietly, with no fanfare or demonstration, or even much notice, the Keflavik base, the focal point of an issue that roiled and divided Iceland politics like one of the fire trenches that mark the country, an issue that had simmered and erupted throughout most of the Cold War, became a ghost town. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland University of Iceland: Peer Reviewed Journals |
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On the 30th of September 2006 for the first time in its history as an independent nation, Iceland was free of all foreign military forces or their representatives. A quiet and almost unnoticed ceremony took place at the Keflavik NATO base. American and Icelandic flags were lowered, folded, given to representatives of the respective countries and the small official party drove away. Quietly, with no fanfare or demonstration, or even much notice, the Keflavik base, the focal point of an issue that roiled and divided Iceland politics like one of the fire trenches that mark the country, an issue that had simmered and erupted throughout most of the Cold War, became a ghost town. |
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