(22 Jul 2012) Norway's Prime Minister said on Sunday that the first anniversary of a deadly bombing and shooting rampage which killed 77 people was an "important day" for the country to remember and express condolences for "those people who lost their lives and lost their loved ones," in the tragedy.
Jens Stoltenberg made the comments after a memorial concert in central Oslo.
Stoltenberg also spoke about his personal feelings, saying that the most difficult part was meeting the families of people killed on Utoya Island.
"Those people... are going to live with the sorrows of 22nd July for the rest of their lives," he said
There was a series of events across Norway on Sunday to mark the one year anniversary of a bomb attack in the capital and shooting massacre at the left-wing Labour Party's youth camp on Utoya island.
Anders Behring Breivik, a 33-year-old far-right fanatic, has admitted carrying out the attacks.
Earlier in the day, at a wreath-laying ceremony at the bomb site in the capital, Stoltenberg said Breivik had failed to achieve his declared goal of destroying Norway's commitment to being an inclusive, multicultural society.
While Breivik admitted carrying out the attacks during a 10-week trial that ended in June, he declined criminal guilt out of principle, saying the victims were traitors for embracing immigration and making Norway a multicultural society.
Prosecutors said Breivik was psychotic and should be sent to compulsory psychiatric care while his defence lawyers argued that he was sane.
Breivik accused authorities of trying to discredit his ideology by casting him as mentally ill.
The Oslo district court is set to deliver its ruling on 24 August.
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