Foreign Ministry's press releases

In spring 2016, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs run ThisisFINLAND YouTube channel changed its strategy and handed the channel over to ten young YouTubers. Now, ThisisFinland has selected ten new Youtubers for the coming year.

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Anyone anywhere can set up their own Finnish Your Dinner table on the weekend of 25–27 August and offer strangers an opportunity to celebrate Finland 100.

Minister for Nordic Cooperation Anne Berner will represent Finland at the Africa-Nordic Meeting of Foreign Ministers to be held in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, on 10 June. The meeting will be hosted by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria Geoffrey Onyeama.

Today Finland adds six new emojis to its astoundingly successful collection of Finland emojis.

The Wastewater Treatment Plant will have significant impacts on the whole Baltic Sea region. For a long time Kaliningrad has been one of the greatest sources of point-source pollution still remaining in the Baltic Sea region, with the wastewater of almost half a million residents discharged untreated into the sea.

Development Policy Committee calls for transparency in the allocation and use of financial investments

The OECD Ministerial Council Meeting (MCM) will be held in Paris on 7–8 June 2017. Finland's representative at the meeting will be Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Kai Mykkänen. The meeting will be chaired by Denmark.

The ArcticFinland.fi website is now presenting Finland as an Arctic country also in English. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland have signed an agreement to develop the site maintained and updated by the Arctic Centre as an Arctic gateway for international audience.

Finland’s candidate, Ambassador Jari Luoto, was elected to a lead position in the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) at its Plenary Meeting in Tokyo on 2 June. Luoto will work as the policy coordinator of the initiative for the next two years.