Minister for Foreign Affairs Erkki Tuomioja to visit Washington

Press release 328/2005
26 October, 2005


Minister for Foreign Affairs Erkki Tuomioja will visit Washington from 31 October to 2 November. He will meet Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice 1 November. Tuomioja and Rice will discuss among other things the Finnish presidency of the EU in the second half of 2006, the relationship between the EU and the United States, situations in Kosovo and Western Sahara and other current international issues.

Minister Tuomioja will also meet among others Deputy National Security Advisor Jack D. Crouch and the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Richard G. Lugar.

More information: Marja Rislakki, Director of the Unit for North America, tel. +358 9 1605 5624, and Advisor to the Minister for Foreign Affairs Katri Viinikka, tel. +358 9 1605 5005