Enver Hoxhaj, Foreign Minister of Kosovo, to visit Finland

Press release 281/2011
25 October 2011

Kosovo Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj will visit Finland on 27 October and will meet with Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja and Speaker of Parliament Eero Heinäluoma.

The topic of the discussions to take place with Foreign Minister Tuomioja are bilateral relations, Kosovo’s international status and rapprochement with the EU.

Minister Hoxhaj will also meet with Undersecretary of State Anne Sipiläinen, who is responsible for development cooperation and development policy. Kosovo is Finland’s most important development cooperation partner country in the Western Balkans.

Minister Hoxhaj will give a lecture, entitled “Kosovo's way to the EU” at the University of Helsinki .

Additional information: Katja Pehrman, Diplomatic Adviser to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, mobile tel. +358 40 181 9257, Attaché Maria Forslund, Unit for EU Enlargement and Western Balkans, mobile tel. +358 40 742 3262