Foreign Minister Stubb to meet with Catherine Ashton

Press release 312/2009
3 December 2009

Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb will meet with Baroness Catherine Ashton, the new High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, in Brussels on Friday, 4 December.

Ashton was appointed the new ‘Foreign Minister’ of the EU in November. This will be the first bilateral meeting between Stubb and Ashton since the appointment.

The topics of discussion at the meeting will be Ashton’s new task and planning of the Union’s own network of diplomatic missions. Stubb and Ashton will also discuss current foreign policy issues.

Additional information: Päivi Pohjanheimo, Adviser to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, mobile tel. +358 40 511 3786, and Sanni Grahn-Laasonen, Press Attaché to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, mobile tel. +358 40 732 8340