Foreign Minister of Moldova visits Finland

Press release 234/2011
12 September 2011

Foreign and European Integration Minister of Moldova, Iurie Leanca, will visit Finland on 11-12 September and meet Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja on 12 September.

The Foreign Ministers will discuss, among other things, the bilateral relations between the countries, the relations between Moldova and the EU, the EU’s Eastern Partnership and regional issues in Moldova’s immediate neighbourhood.

Foreign Minister Leanca is travelling in Finland as part of Prime Minister Vladimir Filat’sdelegation. In Finland, Prime Minister Filat and Foreign Minister Leanca will meet Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen and Minister for International Development Heidi Hautala.

With the Minister for International Development, the topics of discussion include development policy issues of current interest in eastern Europe. Moldova is one of the target countries of the Framework Programme for Finland’s Development Policy, the Wider Europe Initiative, in Eastern Europe.

Alongside the official Moldovan delegation, a business delegation representing 40 companies will also arrive to Finland.

Further information: Susanna Parkkonen, Press Attaché for the Foreign Minister, tel. +358 50 377 5601, Milma Kettunen, Press Attaché for Minister for International Development Hautala, tel. +358 40 522 9869, and First Secretary Markus Heydemann, Unit for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, tel. +358 40 500 8037, [email protected]