Current affairs

Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto will visit Berlin on Thursday 17 October 2019 to attend the 20th anniversary of the Nordic Embassies complex. The event will be attended by the Foreign Ministers of the five Nordic countries and Germany’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas.

Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade Ville Skinnari will attend the 2019 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC on 17–19 October.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jordan Ayman Safadi will visit Finland on Friday 18 October and meet President of the Republic Sauli Niinistö and Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto.

Vaisala Corporation together with the National Meteorology Agency (NMA) of Ethiopia and the Meteorological Institute of Finland are launching a project to help prepare for extreme weather phenomena.

Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade Ville Skinnari will participate in the official visit of President of the Republic Sauli Niinistö to Ethiopia on 15 and 16 October 2019.