Estonian Foreign Minister visits Finland

Press release 240/2005
5 August, 2005


Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet will visit Finland on 8-10 August. Foreign Minister Paet will meet with his Finnish counterpart Erkki Tuomioja on Wednesday, 10 August. The ministers will discuss EU affairs and other current international and bilateral issues. A memorandum of understanding will be signed during the visit on posting of an Estonian consular officer to the Finnish embassy in New Delhi.

Foreign Minister Paet will arrive in Finland on Monday night to participate in a joint dinner with Austrian and Swedish foreign ministers hosted by Foreign Minister Tuomioja in Tuusula. He will also attend the IAAF World Championships in Helsinki.

Further information: Tarja Långström, Attaché, Unit for Central and South Eastern Europe, tel. 1605 6098 (on the visit), and Elisa Kumpula, Legal Counsellor, Department for Administrative Affairs, tel. 1605 5928 (on the memorandum of understanding)