Foreign Ministry's press releases

Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Paavo Väyrynen met with Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in New Delhi on Monday, 22 October. The IPCC shares this year’s Nobel Peace Prize with former US Vice President Al Gore. Väyrynen and Pachauri concurred that the UN should strive to gather together all environment-related global negotiations processes and cooperation forums.

The foreign ministers of the European Union made preparations for the Informal Meeting of Heads of State or Government to take place in Lisbon and the EU–Russia Summit when the General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) met in Luxembourg on Monday, 15 October. Finland was represented at the meeting by Minister for Foreign Affairs Ilkka Kanerva and Minister of Migration and European Affairs Astrid Thors.