Foreign Ministry's press releases

Even though there are differences in the financing of development cooperation between Finland and other Nordic countries, Nordic cooperation in the arena of development policy remains active, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Paula Lehtomäki writes on the website www.norden2007.fi. Nordic development cooperation is practiced in the EU, the UN, as well as in the development financing institutions. The development policy programmes of the Nordic governments have similar goals.

The total of 27,399 people entitled to vote in the Finnish parliamentary elections cast their advance votes in Finland's foreign missions. The amount of voters had risen by 872 from the parliamentary elections of 2003 when 26,527 people cast their votes.