Current affairs

Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb will make his first visit as foreign minister of Finland to Washington, D.C. on 16–19 July, where he will meet with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of the United States.

“Finland is intensifying contacts and cooperation on development policy issues with the United States. An additional goal is to increase cooperation on practical projects among the two countries as well,” Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Paavo Väyrynen stated in Washington after having met with leaders of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Paavo Väyrynen will visit Washington and New York from 30 June to 3 July. In Washington Väyrynen will meet with American political leaders and high-level civil servants, the President of the World Bank and Finns working at the World Bank. The minister will also meet with think tank representatives and will have talks about the US presidential election situation.

U.S. support to the OSCE to face challenges in Kosovo and with election observation and the region's protracted conflicts is vital to the Organization's continued effectiveness, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva, said today on 13 February to the U.S. Helsinki Commission.

Finnish Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva will visit Washington D.C. on February 10-13. He will meet with the US political leadership to discuss current international affairs, OSCE issues and bilateral relations between Finland and the United States.

Under the leadership of Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva, a trans-Atlantic network was established on Monday, 4 February. Experts in relations between Finland and the United States, from different sectors of society, will be invited to attend meetings of the network.