Foreign Ministry's press releases

David Miliband, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom, will hold talks with Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva in Helsinki on Wednesday, 19 March. Miliband will also meet with Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen.

The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva, expressed his condolences to Albania today and offered the Organization’s assistance after a series of huge explosions at an arms dump which killed at least nine people and injured more than 290 others.

Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva will travel to Paris on Monday, 17 March to meet with Bernard Kouchner, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of France.

Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Paavo Väyrynen does not approve the government budget session decision on appropriations for development cooperation.

Preparations for the March meeting of the European Council was the key topic on the agenda of the EU’s General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting held on Monday, 10 March in Brussels. Finland was represented at the meeting by Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Paavo Väyrynen and Minister of Migration and European Affairs Astrid Thors.