2004 received a master's degree in icelandic literature 1999-2003 worked in the icelandic state radio and television service freelance journalist 2006-2007 lecturer at the university of iceland since 2007 member of alteng 2009-22013 minister of education, science and culture minister for nordic cooperation since 2013 leader of the green left since november 2017 prime minister of iceland we are a very peaceful state, we do not have our own army. and as i always say, our foreign policy is a vision of negotiations and active support for a settlement all international conflicts, by peaceful political means. and we also have very ambitious goals related to combating climate change. we hope that our proposal will be of interest to the international community . iceland is indeed the only place on earth where you can literally move from the american continent to the european one in less than an hour, two tectonic plates of two continents converge here. and this fact certainly confirms that iceland is a bridge between america and europe; this is reflected in the history of the country more than 1,000 years ago, it w