Foreign Minister Stubb to go to Georgia

Press Release 248/2010
6 September 2010

Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb will visit Georgia on 7–8 September. His agenda includes meetings with President Saakashvili, Prime Minister Gilauri, Foreign Minister Vashadze and Reintegration Minister Iakobashvili. Foreign Minister Stubb will deliver a speech at the Conference of Heads of Mission of Georgia’s Foreign Ministry. Aside from the official programme, he will visit a refugee centre and meet Finnish EU observers.

The main topics of the meetings are bilateral relations between Finland and Georgia, Georgia’s rapprochement with the EU and the internal situation in Georgia.

Additional information: Mikko Hautala, Adviser to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, mobile tel. +358 40 8346 758, Harri Kämäräinen, Head of the Unit for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, mobile tel. +358 40 742 8247, and Sanni Grahn-Laasonen, Press Attaché to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, mobile tel. +358 40 732 8340