Foreign Ministry's press releases

On 13-15 November a group of 12 coastal countries from the Baltic Sea and the North Sea met in Helsinki and Tallinn to discuss further joint actions against the Russian “shadow fleet”.

Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Ville Tavio has decided to allocate funding for cooperation between the Finnish Environment Institute and the environmental authorities of Ukraine.

EU foreign ministers will convene in Brussels on 18 November. Minister for Foreign Affairs Elina Valtonen will represent Finland at the meeting.

New trilateral arrangement formalizes collaboration on the production of Arctic and polar icebreakers.

Finland will second five new national experts to the International Criminal Court in The Hague as part of Finland’s contribution to civilian crisis management. The experts will take up their duties in November and January.

On his visit to Kyiv on 12 November, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Ville Tavio announced Finland’s pledge to support the Ukrainian education sector reform and to grant humanitarian assistance. In Kyiv, the Minister also signed a framework agreement on a mixed credit instrument between Finland and Ukraine.

Finland is hosting the Scale Accelerator Programme in Espoo together with UN Global Pulse, which is the UN Secretary-General’s Innovation Lab, and Finnish partners. The programme helps to enhance solutions developed by the UN for greater impact together with Finnish and international innovation actors. The seven innovative projects selected for the programme from around the world aim to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Valtonen will attend the Paris Peace Forum on 11 November. She will speak at a panel dealing with the future of Ukraine.

On 8 November, the President of the Republic decided to extend Finland’s participation in the EU Military Assistance Mission (EUMAM) in support of Ukraine. Finland will continue its participation in EUMAM until 15 November 2026 with a maximum of 60 soldiers serving in training and advisory tasks.

At the presidential session on 8 November, the President of the Republic appointed a Head of Mission to Ottawa and a non-resident Ambassador to Benin and Ghana.