Foreign Minister Kanerva on sick leave

Press release 108/2008
1 April, 2008

Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva has today been granted sick leave and his programme is cancelled. Nor will Minister Kanerva participate in the NATO Summit to be held on 2–3 April in Bucharest, Romania. Kanerva is not giving interviews on the matter.

The National Coalition Party is discussing issues pertaining to the foreign minister’s post in meetings of the party board and the parliamentary group members in the morning of Tuesday, 1 April.

Additional information: Press Attaché Juha Kirstilä, tel. +358 40 552 8200; and Jori Arvonen, Senior Adviser to the Minister, tel. +358 50 553 6117