Foreign Ministry's press releases

The new OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva, said today that conflict prevention and crisis management would form the core of his country’s Chairmanship and that the Organization would work with political actors to meet challenges expected during the year.

Finland took over the Chairmanship of the OSCE today and described the Organization as a unique forum of dialogue between 56 participating States whose strength lies in the unanimity required for decision-making.

On Friday, 21 December, the President of the Republic and the Cabinet Committee on Foreign and Security Policy discussed a comprehensive report on Finland’s support to the stabilisation of Afghanistan. In addition, the meeting adopted a decision on the participation of the Defence Forces in international crisis management exercises and took note of a report on Nato prepared in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs

What are NATO’s tasks and principles for its activities? What kind of impact could NATO membership have on Finland's international status and military activities? For instance, these are among the questions answered in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs report