Foreign Minister Soini to informal meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Valletta

Press release 74/2017
27 April 2017

The informal meeting of the EU Foreign Ministers (Gymnich) will be held in Valletta on 28 April. Finland's representative at the meeting will be Minister for Foreign Affairs Timo Soini. The topics on the meeting’s agenda will include Turkey, the implementation of the EU Global Strategy on foreign and security policy, working methods of the EU Foreign Affairs Council as well as globalisation and the rules-based international order.

The Foreign Ministers will discuss the situation in Turkey after the recent referendum on the Turkish constitutional reform and EU-Turkey relations.

In addition, the Ministers will discuss the implementation of the Global Strategy on foreign and security policy with EU candidate countries with an emphasis on strengthening resilience.

The Ministers will also discuss improving the working methods of the EU Foreign Affairs Council in a more strategic and efficient direction.

The Ministers will discuss ways to harness globalisation and make it benefit EU citizens and to defend the rules-based international order.

Inquiries: Matti Nissinen, Diplomatic Adviser to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, tel. +358 295 535 1780 and Sari Rautio, European Correspondent, tel. +358 295 351 534.

The Foreign Ministry's email addresses are in the format [email protected].