Current affairs

In a series of videos and articles on sustainable foreign policy, several leading experts from the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs present key foreign and security policy issues on which they are working. In the first episode of this series of interviews, Satu Mattila-Budich explains her work as Ambassador for Hybrid Affairs and tells what Finland has done in its capacity of President of the Council of the European Union to bring hybrid threats to the agenda of EU meetings.

Statement made by Ambassador Päivi Laivola de Rosière at the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw Working Session 2: Freedom of expression, free media and information, 17 September 2019.

Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States of America do not recognize the legitimacy of the so-called ‘presidential elections’ held in Georgia’s Abkhazia region by the de facto authorities in Sokhumi on August 25, 2019, and will not acknowledge their outcome.

The OSCE Informal Ministerial Gathering was held in Slovakia’s High Tatras on 9 July. Ministers and officials gathered to discuss OSCE’s role as a multilateral, conflict prevention tool. Finland was represented by Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto will attend an informal ministerial gathering of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, which will be held in Slovakia’s High Tatras on 9 July.