MFA: Minister for Foreign Affairs Haavisto visits Afghanistan

The main purpose of Foreign Minister Haavisto’s visit is to discuss Afghanistan's peace process, the upcoming international pledging conference, and bilateral and topical issues. The 2020 Afghanistan Conference to be held on 23–24 November will be co-hosted by Finland together with the Afghan Government and the United Nations. The aim of this pledging conference is to support Afghanistan's road towards sustainable development and peace.

A stable Afghanistan is in the interest of Finland and the whole Europe. Finland has participated in the stabilisation and development of Afghanistan since 2002 through military crisis management, civilian crisis management and development cooperation. For security reasons, we will provide more information about the visit afterwards.

Inquiries: Otto Turtonen, Special Adviser to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, tel. +358 50 514 5811 and Matti Keppo, Team Leader for Afghanistan, tel. +358 295 535 0778.

The Foreign Ministry’s email addresses are in the format firstname.lastname@formin.fi