Minister of Defence Kaikkonen to visit Berlin

Minister of Defence Antti Kaikkonen will attend the Berlin Security Conference on Thursday 1 December. Minister Kaikkonen will take part in a high-level panel discussion on the integration of Finland and Sweden into NATO. Sweden's Minister for Defence Pål Jonson and General Philip M. Breedlove, former NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), will also take part in the panel discussion.

Attended by political and military decision-makers and other security policy experts, the Security Conference in Berlin is an international forum for security and defence policy. This year, the conference will focus on Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine, NATO's strategic concept and security in the Arctic region.

Inquiries: Special Adviser Laura Furuholm on the visit to Berlin, tel. +358 295 140 070, and Special Adviser Emma Virkkunen on communications matters, tel. +358 295 140 176.