Foreign Ministry's press releases

Finland’s Chairmanship in the Arctic Council, participation in security sector training cooperation in Iraq, and Russia and Ukraine discussed at the Ministerial Committee on Foreign and Security Policy

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Erik Solheim, the Norwegian Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), visits Finland on Wednesday 3 May, on invitation of the Minister of Agriculture and the Environment Kimmo Tiilikainen.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Timo Soini will attend the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, on 10–11 May.

Each UN Member State’s human rights record is discussed in a peer review dialogue, where Member States present questions to the state under review and make recommendations on its national human rights record.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will visit Finland on 4 May at the invitation of Foreign Minister Timo Soini.

The informal meeting of the EU Foreign Ministers (Gymnich) will be held in Valletta on 28 April. Finland's representative at the meeting will be Minister for Foreign Affairs Timo Soini. The topics on the meeting’s agenda will include Turkey, the implementation of the EU Global Strategy on foreign and security policy, working methods of the EU Foreign Affairs Council as well as globalisation and the rules-based international order.

On Friday 21 April, the President of the Republic and the Ministerial Committee on Foreign and Security Policy discussed the situation picture in Finland with regard to international terrorism.

The Finland Promotion Board (FPB), which sets the guidelines for Finland’s country brand work, has published its country brand review for the years 2015–2016: Building the image of Finland – review of the country image work 2015-2016.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Timo Soini will visit Tunisia from 18 to 20 April 2017. During the visit Minister Soini will meet Tunisia’s leadership and discuss the countries’ bilateral relations, migration, the situation in the region and other topical issues.