Foreign Ministry's press releases

The EU Foreign Ministers will convene at a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg on 12 October. Finland's representative in the meeting will be Minister for Foreign Affairs Timo Soini.

Finland will contribute EUR 34.7 million to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to help developing countries deal with climate change. This is the first part of Finland's EUR 80 million funding target during the GCF's Initial Resource Mobilization period in 2015–2018.

Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Lenita Toivakka will be on a Team Finland trade mission in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, from 4 to 7 October 2015.

Finland hosted the sixth meeting of the Group of Friends of Mediation in New York on 1 October 2015.

Finland’s country image site ThisisFINLAND has been renewed. The new site has an up-to-date look and simpler user experience. The focus for the renewal has been “mobile first”, to ensure that the site works seamlessly across all mobile devices. The site supports seven different languages: the master language is English and on top of it finland.fi is published in Russian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese.

Finland together with many other countries pledged new commitments to peacekeeping at the U.N. Peacekeeping Summit during the week of high-level meetings on 28 September.

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs’ 2016 budget proposal for its administrative branch totals EUR 1,048 million. As a part of the new consolidation measures in public finances, development cooperation appropriations will be cut by EUR 201 million in accordance with the Government Programme.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Timo Soini will meet the Lithuanian Minister for Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius in Vilnius on 24 September.

Minister for Nordic Cooperation Anne Berner takes part in her first meeting of Nordic cooperation ministers in Copenhagen on 23 September 2015.