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4.2.2021 | Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto to visit St Petersburg Ministry for Foreign Affairs Publication date 4.2.2021 14.40 Type: Press release On Monday 15 February, Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto will visit St Petersburg and hav...

24.8.2021 | Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin´s speech at the Annual Meeting of Heads of Mission, hosted by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland 24 August 2021. (Check against delivery).

24.8.2021 | Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin´s speech at the Annual Meeting of Heads of Mission, hosted by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland 24 August 2021. (Check against delivery).

25.7.2021 | Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi today in Chengdu, Southwest China, and held discussions with him on bilateral issues, EU-China relations and some key international questions.

24.8.2022 | On 24–26 August 2022, Europe Forum Turku will gather Finnish opinion-makers and citizens to discuss Finland’s role in Europe. The Ministers and public officials of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs will contribute as speakers to many of the Forum events. In addition, Europe Information of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs will have a stand in the Hansatori Shopping Centre on Friday 26 August.

12.3.2021 | Antarctica, located around the geographical South Pole, and the surrounding islands south of 60 degrees South latitude together form the Antarctic region. Antarctica is the coldest, driest and windiest place on earth. It does not belong to any state and has no indigenous or permanent settlement.

2.6.2021 | Finland is coordinating cooperation between the Nordic countries and Baltic states in the Nordic–Baltic Eight (NB8) format in 2021. The second foreign ministerial meeting of the year will be held on Wednesday 2 June. Due to the COVID-19 situation, the meeting will be held virtually.

31.5.2021 | Almost two thousand people took part in the process to create a Nordic perspective for the European Commission’s New European Bauhaus initiative. The participants considered that Nordic values such as sustainability, closeness to nature, equality and inclusion provide a good basis for housing and building. The final report on the outcomes of the Nordic co-design process has now been published and submitted to the European Commission.

2.11.2021 | Finland has joined the Leaders' Declaration on Forests and Land Use of the Glasgow Climate Change Conference, whereby more than one hundred countries commit to stopping deforestation by 2030. President of the Republic Sauli Niinistö will speak at the publication event of the Declaration on Forests in Glasgow on Tuesday.

10.5.2021 | EU foreign ministers will convene in Brussels on Monday 10 May. Finland’s representative at the meeting will be State Secretary Johanna Sumuvuori. The main topics on the meeting agenda will be the relations between the USA and the EU and the situation in the Western Balkans. Foreign ministers will also have a video conference with US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry.

2.11.2021 | Finland has joined the Leaders' Declaration on Forests and Land Use of the Glasgow Climate Change Conference, whereby more than one hundred countries commit to stopping deforestation by 2030. President of the Republic Sauli Niinistö will speak at the publication event of the Declaration on Forests in Glasgow on Tuesday.

16.3.2021 | Prime Minister Sanna Marin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a remote bilateral meeting on 16 March 2021. In their first meeting, the prime ministers had an extensive discussion on how to deepen concrete cooperation between their countries and addressed a number of key international issues.

10.9.2021 | The webinar is a kickoff for creating a constructive dialogue about Nordic food culture and its different drivers for promoting sustainable lifestyle. It’s time to explore the Nordic Kitchen Manifesto as a catalyst in creating a new tool for a constructive dialogue to match the different sustainability perspectives of just food systems in the Nordics.

22.1.2021 | EU foreign ministers meet to discuss climate and energy matters and a broad range of other topical issues Ministry for Foreign Affairs Publication date 22.1.2021 14.25 Type: Press release The EU Foreign Affairs Council will hold its first meeting ...

22.8.2022 | "In times of crisis, decision-making capacity is weighed up. Through good cooperation between various actors, Finland has made the necessary foreign and security policy decisions. In the middle of difficult times, we have made rapid but deliberate progress."

23.8.2021 | Excellencies, Distinguished Colleagues, It really feels good to be Finnish right now. Our team may not have brought home gold from the Olympics in Tokyo, but our efforts to tackle the Covid crisis are surely worth a few medals. This is a good opportunity for me to extend my thanks to you for your hard work. This is also a chance to for us to take a look ahead together.

22.3.2023 | Suomen saamelaiskäräjät ja Suomen Barentsin euroarktisen neuvoston puheenjohtajuus järjestävät yhteistyössä Euroopan parlamentin kanssa alkuperäiskansojen huippukokouksen Brysselissä 22.–24. maaliskuuta.

28.1.2022 | Barentsin hankerahaston (Barents Financial Mechanism, BFM) toiminta käynnistetään Suomen Barentsin euroarktisen neuvoston (Barents Euro-Arctic Council, BEAC) puheenjohtajakaudella 2021-2023 ja ensimmäinen haku avataan 24.4.2022.

28.1.2022 | Projektfonden för Barentsregionen (Barents Financial Mechanism, BFM) inleder sin verksamhet under Finlands ordförandeskap i Barentsrådet (Barents Euro-Arctic Council, BEAC) 2021–2023 och den första utlysningen öppnas den 24 april 2022.