Current affairs

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has convened a high-level tripartite meeting between Finland, Sweden and Türkiye to be held in Brussels on 6 July 2023.

Comments on the Ministry for Foreign Affairs proposal may be given at lausuntopalvelu.fi until 8 August 2023.

An informal meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs will be held in Oslo from 31 May to 1 June. This will be the second meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs which Finland attends as a member of the Alliance.

Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto's keynote address at the Fletcher School Commencement May 21, 2023.

The conference took place in Brussels on 16th of May 2023.

As of 15 May, the email addresses of the staff members at Finland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs and missions abroad will be, as a rule, in the format [email protected]. The change is part of the overall harmonisation of the Government’s email addresses.

Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Transport and Communications Minna Kivimäki has been nominated a candidate for the post of Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). There are altogether seven candidates for the post.

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs completes Finland’s relief effort in Sudan on Thursday 27 April.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto will meet Estonia’s new Minister of Foreign Affairs Margus Tsahkna in Helsinki on 18 April. Follow the live webcast of the press conference on the Foreign Ministry's YouTube channel at 4:50 pm.

At the presidential session on 14 April, the President of the Republic decided to appoint two new Ambassadors and one new non-resident Ambassador.