Current affairs

The opportunity to express condolences on the passing of President Martti Ahtisaari, organized at the residence of the Finnish Ambassador to Cyprus Harri Mäki-Reinikka in Nicosia on 19-20 October 2023, attracted a significant number of distinguished Cypriot guests and diplomats. Mr Ahtisaari is remembered on the island in particular for his international career and work in peacebuilding but also for his childhood background as a Carelian refugee, which deeply touches many Cypriots due to the country's own history.

Finland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs is planning to launch a tendering process for outsourcing its entry permit application submission services in 2024. As a preparation for the upcoming tendering process, the Ministry will survey the market in autumn 2023.

A total of 23 Honorary Consuls of Finland from ten countries of South-Eastern Europe visited Helsinki on 12-14 September 2023. Honorary Consul General of Finland in Cyprus, Demosthenis Z. Severis and Honorary Vice-Consul Zenon D. Severis attended the meeting from Cyprus.

Some of the prices of services provided by the Finnish missions and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs will rise. The new prices will enter into force on 1 September 2023.

Heads of Finland’s missions abroad and foreign policy leaders will meet again at the Annual Meeting of Heads of Mission in Helsinki on 21–23 August.

Comments on the Ministry for Foreign Affairs proposal may be given at lausuntopalvelu.fi until 8 August 2023.

Comments on the draft government proposal may be submitted to the lausuntopalvelu.fi service until 15 August 2023.

Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto's keynote address at the Fletcher School Commencement May 21, 2023.

As of 15 May, the email addresses of the staff members at Finland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs and missions abroad will be, as a rule, in the format [email protected]. The change is part of the overall harmonisation of the Government’s email addresses.