Current affairs
7.2.2008
15.11.2007
Finland passes on Barents chairmanship to Russia
I am highly satisfied with our meeting, where cooperation in the Barents region took concrete steps forward, Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva stated at the press conference following the Barents Euro-Arctic Council meeting in Rovaniemi on 15 November. The meeting confirmed the establishment of a permanent international Barents Secretariat at Kirkenes, Norway. At the meeting, Kanerva also handed the Council chairman’s gavel over to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov of Russia.
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1.11.2007
Nordic Foreign Ministers discussed cooperation in the North and Baltic Sea region
Discussions among the Foreign Ministers of the Nordic countries, which took place in connection with a session of the Nordic Council, were held in a highly positive and open atmosphere, said Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva, who chaired the meeting in Oslo on Wednesday, 31 October. The main topics of the Foreign Ministers’ meeting were regional cooperation in the North and the Baltic Sea region.
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15.6.2007
11.6.2007
24.11.2006
The Northern Dimension becomes a common policy of the EU, Russia, Norway and Iceland
On Friday, 24 November at the EU-Russia Summit in Helsinki, the Northern Dimension became a common policy of the EU, Russia, Norway and Iceland. The new basic documents – a joint political Declaration and a Northern Dimension Framework Document – were approved at the Summit. They enter into force in January and are permanent in nature, the objective being to strengthen the commitment of all the parties – the EU, Russia, Norway and Iceland – to the Northern Dimension.
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