Foreign Ministry's press releases

Minister for Foreign Affairs Timo Soini and Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Margot Wallström will meet in Helsinki on Thursday 16 March.

The sixty-first session on the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, CSW, will take place in New York from 13 to 24 March. A broad-based Finnish delegation will attend the session under the leading of Pirkko Mattila, Minister of Social Affairs and Health.

Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze will visit Finland on 13 March.

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Moldova Andrei Galbur will meet Minister for Foreign Affairs Timo Soini in Helsinki on 13 March.

To promote gender equality in the world, to support discussion on equality and to celebrate Finland’s 100 years of independence, the Finnish Government is launching the International Gender Equality Prize.

The EU Foreign Affairs Council will meet in Brussels on 6 March. Finland's representative at the meeting will be Minister for Foreign Affairs Timo Soini. The topics on the Council’s agenda will include strengthening of the EU cooperation on external security and defence, migration, Western Balkans, the Middle East peace process, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Kai Mykkänen will participate in an informal meeting of Trade Ministers in Valletta on 2 and 3 March.

“This involves safe childbirths, strengthening of sexual self-determination, the right to have contraception and also a safe abortion – that is, fundamental human rights

The WTO’s Appellate Body issued its ruling on an import ban dispute concerning pork products between the European Union and Russia on 23 February 2017. The EU won the dispute.

The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) enters into force on 22 February 2017.