Minister of Foreign Affairs (Finland)
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The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland (in Finnish
Finnish language
Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...

, ulkoasiainministeri, in Swedish
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...

 utrikesminister) handles Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

's foreign affairs
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs is an American magazine and website on international relations and U.S. foreign policy published since 1922 by the Council on Foreign Relations six times annually...

. The current Minister for Foreign Affairs is Erkki Tuomioja
Erkki Tuomioja
Erkki Sakari Tuomioja is the Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs. He is currently a member of the Finnish Parliament.Tuomioja is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, although his political views are thought to be more to the left than the party line. He is also a member of ATTAC...

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Three ministers are attached to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Finland)
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs is a ministry in the Finnish Government and is responsible for preparing and implementing the government's foreign policy.-Organisation:...

 in the current cabinet
Jyrki Katainen's cabinet
Jyrki Katainen's cabinet is the 72nd cabinet of Finland, formed as a result of the 2011 post-parliamentary election negotiations between the Finnish parliamentary parties...

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  • Minister for Foreign Affairs, responsible for foreign and security policy and general foreign service matters, Erkki Tuomioja
    Erkki Tuomioja
    Erkki Sakari Tuomioja is the Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs. He is currently a member of the Finnish Parliament.Tuomioja is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, although his political views are thought to be more to the left than the party line. He is also a member of ATTAC...

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  • Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade, responsible for economic relations, coordination of EU affairs, coordination of the country's relations with adjacent states and planning and coordination of Finland's Nordic relations, Alexander Stubb
    Alexander Stubb
    Cai-Göran Alexander Stubb is a Finnish politician and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 4 April 2008 to 22 June 2011...

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  • Minister for International Development, Heidi Hautala
    Heidi Hautala
    -External links:* * *...

    . She is also responsible for state's ownership steering.

Constitutional mandate

Section 93 (Competence in the area of foreign policy issues) of the Constitution of Finland
Constitution of Finland
The Constitution of Finland is the supreme source of national law of Finland. It defines the basis, structures and organisation of government, the relationship between the different constitutional organs, and lays out the fundamental rights of Finnish citizens...

 provides:
This last paragraph specifies the constitutional responsibility of the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

List of Ministers for Foreign Affairs

Period of Office Minister for Foreign Affairs Party
1918 Otto Stenroth
Otto Stenroth
Otto Stenroth was a Finnish lawyer, politician and banker.He served as a member of Kansallis-Osake-Pankki bank executive board 1889-1893, deputy director general 1893-1906. Thereafter, he served as the chairman of the board of Hypoteekkikassa 1904-1908 and 1909-1916...

 
Young Finnish Party
Young Finnish Party
The Young Finnish Party or Constitutional-Fennoman Party was a liberal and nationalist political party in the Grand Duchy of Finland...

 
1918-1919 Carl Enckell
Carl Enckell
Carl Enckell was a Finnish politician, officer and a diplomat. He was the first representative of independent Finland in Saint Petersburg...

 
Technical minister
1919-1922 Rudolf Holsti
Rudolf Holsti
Eino Rudolf Woldemar Holsti was a Finnish politician, journalist and diplomat. He was the Foreign Minister of Finland 1919–1922 and 1936–1938 and a member of the Finnish Parliament 1913–1918 representing the Young Finnish Party...

 
National Progressive Party
National Progressive Party (Finland)
The National Progressive Party was a liberal political party in Finland from 1918 to 1951. The party was founded December 8 1918, after the Finnish Civil War, by the republican majority of the Young Finnish Party and the republican minority of the Finnish Party...

1922 Carl Enckell
Carl Enckell
Carl Enckell was a Finnish politician, officer and a diplomat. He was the first representative of independent Finland in Saint Petersburg...

 
Technical minister
1922-1924 Juho Vennola
Juho Vennola
Juho Heikki Vennola was Professor of National Economics at the University of Helsinki, a member of the Parliament of Finland, and a politician from the National Progressive Party, who served as Prime Minister of Finland for three times.Vennola's first government was from August 15, 1919 to March...

 
National Progressive Party
National Progressive Party (Finland)
The National Progressive Party was a liberal political party in Finland from 1918 to 1951. The party was founded December 8 1918, after the Finnish Civil War, by the republican majority of the Young Finnish Party and the republican minority of the Finnish Party...

 
1924 Carl Enckell
Carl Enckell
Carl Enckell was a Finnish politician, officer and a diplomat. He was the first representative of independent Finland in Saint Petersburg...

 
Technical minister
1924-1925 Hjalmar Procopé
Hjalmar Procopé
Hjalmar Johan Fredrik Procopé was a Finnish politician and a diplomat from the Swedish People's Party. Procopé was a minister in several cabinets in the 1920s and 1930s....

 
Swedish People's Party
1925 Gustaf Idman
Gustaf Idman
Karl Gustaf Idman was a Finnish diplomat and a non-partisan Minister of Foreign Affairs in Antti Tulenheimo's cabinet in 1925....

Technical minister
1925-1926 Emil Nestor Setälä  National Coalition Party
1926-1927 Väinö Voionmaa
Väinö Voionmaa
Kaarle Väinö Voionmaa was a Finnish professor, member of the parliament of Finland, senator, minister and chancellor. He also was one of the most influential politicians during the early times of independent Republic of Finland...

 
Social Democratic Party
Social Democratic Party of Finland
The Social Democratic Party of Finland is one of the three major political parties in Finland, along with the Centre Party and the National Coalition Party. Jutta Urpilainen is the current SDP leader. The party has been in the Finnish government cabinet for long periods and has set many...

 
1927-1931 Hjalmar Procopé
Hjalmar Procopé
Hjalmar Johan Fredrik Procopé was a Finnish politician and a diplomat from the Swedish People's Party. Procopé was a minister in several cabinets in the 1920s and 1930s....

 
Technical minister
1931-1932 Aarno Yrjö-Koskinen
Aarno Yrjö-Koskinen
Aarno Armas Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen was a Finnish politician, ambassador and freiherr. He graduated as jurist and received the title varatuomari in 1915....

 
National Coalition Party 
1932-1936 Antti Hackzell
Antti Hackzell
Antti Verner Hackzell was a Finnish politician from the National Coalition Party and Prime Minister of Finland in 1944....

 
Technical minister
1936-1938 Rudolf Holsti
Rudolf Holsti
Eino Rudolf Woldemar Holsti was a Finnish politician, journalist and diplomat. He was the Foreign Minister of Finland 1919–1922 and 1936–1938 and a member of the Finnish Parliament 1913–1918 representing the Young Finnish Party...

 
National Progressive Party
National Progressive Party (Finland)
The National Progressive Party was a liberal political party in Finland from 1918 to 1951. The party was founded December 8 1918, after the Finnish Civil War, by the republican majority of the Young Finnish Party and the republican minority of the Finnish Party...

 
1938 Väinö Voionmaa
Väinö Voionmaa
Kaarle Väinö Voionmaa was a Finnish professor, member of the parliament of Finland, senator, minister and chancellor. He also was one of the most influential politicians during the early times of independent Republic of Finland...

 
Social Democratic Party
Social Democratic Party of Finland
The Social Democratic Party of Finland is one of the three major political parties in Finland, along with the Centre Party and the National Coalition Party. Jutta Urpilainen is the current SDP leader. The party has been in the Finnish government cabinet for long periods and has set many...

 
1938-1939 Eljas Erkko
Eljas Erkko
Juho Eljas Erkko was a Finnish politician and journalist. He was a foreign minister and negotiated with the Soviet Union before the Winter War started...

 
National Progressive Party
National Progressive Party (Finland)
The National Progressive Party was a liberal political party in Finland from 1918 to 1951. The party was founded December 8 1918, after the Finnish Civil War, by the republican majority of the Young Finnish Party and the republican minority of the Finnish Party...

 
1939-1940 Väinö Tanner
Väinö Tanner
Väinö Tanner was a pioneer and leader in the cooperative movement in Finland, and Prime Minister of Finland from 1926 to 1927....

 
Social Democratic Party
Social Democratic Party of Finland
The Social Democratic Party of Finland is one of the three major political parties in Finland, along with the Centre Party and the National Coalition Party. Jutta Urpilainen is the current SDP leader. The party has been in the Finnish government cabinet for long periods and has set many...

 
1940-1943 Rolf Witting
Rolf Witting
Rolf Johan Witting was a renowned oceanographist and Swedish-speaking Finnish politician, member of four of Finland's cabinets 1926–1943...

 
Swedish People's Party 
1943-1944 Carl Henrik Ramsay
Henrik Ramsay
Carl Henrik Wolter Ramsay was a Finnish politician and an economist from the Swedish People's Party. He belonged to a Scottish noble family emigrated to Finland and was one of the few in Finland entitled to use the title Sir, however, Ramsay did not use the title.Henrik Ramsay completed his Ph.D...

 
Swedish People's Party 
1944-1950 Carl Enckell
Carl Enckell
Carl Enckell was a Finnish politician, officer and a diplomat. He was the first representative of independent Finland in Saint Petersburg...

Technical minister
1950-1951 Åke Gartz
Åke Gartz
Åke Henrik Gartz was a Finnish CEO and the Minister of Foreign Affairs in two cabinets between 1950 and 1951.Gartz was also the Minister of Trade and Industry from 1944 to 1946...

 
Technical minister
1951-1952 Sakari Tuomioja
Sakari Tuomioja
Sakari Severi Tuomioja was a Finnish politician , diplomat, Prime Minister of Finland during the caretaker government which was formed in 1953...

 
Technical minister
1952-1953 Urho Kekkonen
Urho Kekkonen
Urho Kaleva Kekkonen , was a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland and later as the eighth President of Finland . Kekkonen continued the “active neutrality” policy of his predecessor President Juho Kusti Paasikivi, a doctrine which came to be known as the “Paasikivi–Kekkonen...

 
Agrarian League
Centre Party (Finland)
The Centre Party is a centrist and Nordic agrarian political party in Finland. It is one of the four largest political parties in the country, along with the Social Democratic Party , the National Coalition Party and the True Finns , and currently has 35 seats in the Finnish Parliament...

 
1953-1954 Ralf Törngren
Ralf Törngren
Ralf Johan Gustaf Törngren, , was a Finnish politician. He was the party leader of the Swedish People's Party , a member of the Finnish parliament and the Prime Minister of Finland 5 May-20 October 1954...

 
Swedish People's Party 
1954 Urho Kekkonen
Urho Kekkonen
Urho Kaleva Kekkonen , was a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland and later as the eighth President of Finland . Kekkonen continued the “active neutrality” policy of his predecessor President Juho Kusti Paasikivi, a doctrine which came to be known as the “Paasikivi–Kekkonen...

Agrarian League
Centre Party (Finland)
The Centre Party is a centrist and Nordic agrarian political party in Finland. It is one of the four largest political parties in the country, along with the Social Democratic Party , the National Coalition Party and the True Finns , and currently has 35 seats in the Finnish Parliament...

 
1954-1956 Johannes Virolainen
Johannes Virolainen
Johannes Virolainen was a Finnish politician.Virolainen was born near Viipuri. After the Continuation War Virolainen moved to Lohja, but he remained one of the leaders of the evacuated Karelians, and never gave up the hope that Soviet Union and later Russia would return Finnish Karelia to Finland...

 
Agrarian League
Centre Party (Finland)
The Centre Party is a centrist and Nordic agrarian political party in Finland. It is one of the four largest political parties in the country, along with the Social Democratic Party , the National Coalition Party and the True Finns , and currently has 35 seats in the Finnish Parliament...

 
1956-1957 Ralf Törngren
Ralf Törngren
Ralf Johan Gustaf Törngren, , was a Finnish politician. He was the party leader of the Swedish People's Party , a member of the Finnish parliament and the Prime Minister of Finland 5 May-20 October 1954...

 
Swedish People's Party 
1957 Johannes Virolainen
Johannes Virolainen
Johannes Virolainen was a Finnish politician.Virolainen was born near Viipuri. After the Continuation War Virolainen moved to Lohja, but he remained one of the leaders of the evacuated Karelians, and never gave up the hope that Soviet Union and later Russia would return Finnish Karelia to Finland...

 
Agrarian League
Centre Party (Finland)
The Centre Party is a centrist and Nordic agrarian political party in Finland. It is one of the four largest political parties in the country, along with the Social Democratic Party , the National Coalition Party and the True Finns , and currently has 35 seats in the Finnish Parliament...

 
1957-1958 Paavo Hynninen
Paavo Hynninen
Paavo Juho Hynninen was a former Finnish diplomat, who was the Minister of Foreign Affairs in two politically neutral cabinets led by Reino Kuuskoski and Rainer von Fieandt....

 
Technical minister
1958 Johannes Virolainen
Johannes Virolainen
Johannes Virolainen was a Finnish politician.Virolainen was born near Viipuri. After the Continuation War Virolainen moved to Lohja, but he remained one of the leaders of the evacuated Karelians, and never gave up the hope that Soviet Union and later Russia would return Finnish Karelia to Finland...

 
Agrarian League
Centre Party (Finland)
The Centre Party is a centrist and Nordic agrarian political party in Finland. It is one of the four largest political parties in the country, along with the Social Democratic Party , the National Coalition Party and the True Finns , and currently has 35 seats in the Finnish Parliament...

 
1958-1959 Karl-August Fagerholm
Karl-August Fagerholm
Karl-August Fagerholm was Speaker of Parliament and three times Prime Minister of Finland . Fagerholm became chairman of the Social Democrats after the armistice in the Continuation War...

 
Social Democratic Party
Social Democratic Party of Finland
The Social Democratic Party of Finland is one of the three major political parties in Finland, along with the Centre Party and the National Coalition Party. Jutta Urpilainen is the current SDP leader. The party has been in the Finnish government cabinet for long periods and has set many...

 
1959-1961 Ralf Törngren
Ralf Törngren
Ralf Johan Gustaf Törngren, , was a Finnish politician. He was the party leader of the Swedish People's Party , a member of the Finnish parliament and the Prime Minister of Finland 5 May-20 October 1954...

 
Swedish People's Party 
1961-1962 Ahti Karjalainen
Ahti Karjalainen
Ahti Kalle Samuli Karjalainen was a Finnish politician. He was a member of the Agrarian League and was Prime Minister of Finland for two terms...

 
Agrarian League
Centre Party (Finland)
The Centre Party is a centrist and Nordic agrarian political party in Finland. It is one of the four largest political parties in the country, along with the Social Democratic Party , the National Coalition Party and the True Finns , and currently has 35 seats in the Finnish Parliament...

 
1962-1963 Veli Merikoski
Veli Merikoski
Veli Kaarlo Merikoski was a professor in the University of Helsinki and once the Minister for Foreign Affairs representing People's Party....

 
People's Party
People's Party of Finland (1951)
The People's Party of Finland was a Finnish liberal political party founded on 3 February 1951 after the National Progressive Party was disbanded. In 1965 it merged with the Liberal League into the Liberal People's Party....

 
1963-1964 Jaakko Hallama
Jaakko Hallama
Jaakko Eino Untamo Hallama was a former Finnish Foreign Ministry official, who was the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the politically neutral cabinet of Reino Lehto....

 
Technical minister
1964-1970 Ahti Karjalainen
Ahti Karjalainen
Ahti Kalle Samuli Karjalainen was a Finnish politician. He was a member of the Agrarian League and was Prime Minister of Finland for two terms...

 
Centre Party
Centre Party (Finland)
The Centre Party is a centrist and Nordic agrarian political party in Finland. It is one of the four largest political parties in the country, along with the Social Democratic Party , the National Coalition Party and the True Finns , and currently has 35 seats in the Finnish Parliament...

 
1970-1971 Väinö Leskinen
Väinö Leskinen
Väinö Olavi Leskinen was a Finnish politician, minister and a member of the parliament from Social Democratic Party of Finland...

 
Social Democratic Party
Social Democratic Party of Finland
The Social Democratic Party of Finland is one of the three major political parties in Finland, along with the Centre Party and the National Coalition Party. Jutta Urpilainen is the current SDP leader. The party has been in the Finnish government cabinet for long periods and has set many...

 
1971-1972 Olavi J. Mattila
Olavi J. Mattila
Olavi Johannes Mattila is a former Finnish Trade and Industry Ministry official, who hold several ministerial positions in a number of cabinets in the 1960s and 1970s. He was also the CEO of Valmet. He was considered as a close associate of Urho Kekkonen.He graduated as master of science in...

Technical minister
1972 Kalevi Sorsa
Kalevi Sorsa
Taisto Kalevi Sorsa was a Finnish politician who was Prime Minister of Finland four times: 1972–1975, 1977–1979, 1982–1983 and 1983–1987 and at the date of his death still held the Finnish record of most days of incumbency as prime minister...

 
Social Democratic Party
Social Democratic Party of Finland
The Social Democratic Party of Finland is one of the three major political parties in Finland, along with the Centre Party and the National Coalition Party. Jutta Urpilainen is the current SDP leader. The party has been in the Finnish government cabinet for long periods and has set many...

 
1972-1975 Ahti Karjalainen
Ahti Karjalainen
Ahti Kalle Samuli Karjalainen was a Finnish politician. He was a member of the Agrarian League and was Prime Minister of Finland for two terms...

 
Centre Party
Centre Party (Finland)
The Centre Party is a centrist and Nordic agrarian political party in Finland. It is one of the four largest political parties in the country, along with the Social Democratic Party , the National Coalition Party and the True Finns , and currently has 35 seats in the Finnish Parliament...

 
1975 Olavi J. Mattila
Olavi J. Mattila
Olavi Johannes Mattila is a former Finnish Trade and Industry Ministry official, who hold several ministerial positions in a number of cabinets in the 1960s and 1970s. He was also the CEO of Valmet. He was considered as a close associate of Urho Kekkonen.He graduated as master of science in...

 
Technical minister
1975-1976 Kalevi Sorsa
Kalevi Sorsa
Taisto Kalevi Sorsa was a Finnish politician who was Prime Minister of Finland four times: 1972–1975, 1977–1979, 1982–1983 and 1983–1987 and at the date of his death still held the Finnish record of most days of incumbency as prime minister...

 
Social Democratic Party
Social Democratic Party of Finland
The Social Democratic Party of Finland is one of the three major political parties in Finland, along with the Centre Party and the National Coalition Party. Jutta Urpilainen is the current SDP leader. The party has been in the Finnish government cabinet for long periods and has set many...

 
1976-1977 Keijo Korhonen
Keijo Korhonen
Keijo Korhonen is a Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1979 to 1983. He won a bronze medal in the team large hill at the 1982 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo....

 
Centre Party
Centre Party (Finland)
The Centre Party is a centrist and Nordic agrarian political party in Finland. It is one of the four largest political parties in the country, along with the Social Democratic Party , the National Coalition Party and the True Finns , and currently has 35 seats in the Finnish Parliament...

 
1977-1982 Paavo Väyrynen
Paavo Väyrynen
Paavo Matti Väyrynen is a Finnish veteran politician of the Centre Party. Väyrynen has held several ministerial portfolios and is also a former Member of the European Parliament.-Career:...

 
Centre Party
Centre Party (Finland)
The Centre Party is a centrist and Nordic agrarian political party in Finland. It is one of the four largest political parties in the country, along with the Social Democratic Party , the National Coalition Party and the True Finns , and currently has 35 seats in the Finnish Parliament...

 
1982-1983 Pär Stenbäck  Swedish People's Party 
1983-1987 Paavo Väyrynen
Paavo Väyrynen
Paavo Matti Väyrynen is a Finnish veteran politician of the Centre Party. Väyrynen has held several ministerial portfolios and is also a former Member of the European Parliament.-Career:...

 
Centre Party
Centre Party (Finland)
The Centre Party is a centrist and Nordic agrarian political party in Finland. It is one of the four largest political parties in the country, along with the Social Democratic Party , the National Coalition Party and the True Finns , and currently has 35 seats in the Finnish Parliament...

 
1987-1989 Kalevi Sorsa
Kalevi Sorsa
Taisto Kalevi Sorsa was a Finnish politician who was Prime Minister of Finland four times: 1972–1975, 1977–1979, 1982–1983 and 1983–1987 and at the date of his death still held the Finnish record of most days of incumbency as prime minister...

Social Democratic Party
Social Democratic Party of Finland
The Social Democratic Party of Finland is one of the three major political parties in Finland, along with the Centre Party and the National Coalition Party. Jutta Urpilainen is the current SDP leader. The party has been in the Finnish government cabinet for long periods and has set many...

1989 - 1991 Pertti Paasio
Pertti Paasio
Pertti Kullervo Paasio is a Finnish politician from the Social Democratic Party.Paasio participated in the municipal politics of Turku and was elected into the municipal council in 1965. Paasio became member of the Parliament in July 1975, however, he lost the seat in the 1979 parliamentary...

 
Social Democratic Party
Social Democratic Party of Finland
The Social Democratic Party of Finland is one of the three major political parties in Finland, along with the Centre Party and the National Coalition Party. Jutta Urpilainen is the current SDP leader. The party has been in the Finnish government cabinet for long periods and has set many...

 
1991 - 1993 Paavo Väyrynen
Paavo Väyrynen
Paavo Matti Väyrynen is a Finnish veteran politician of the Centre Party. Väyrynen has held several ministerial portfolios and is also a former Member of the European Parliament.-Career:...

 
Centre Party
Centre Party (Finland)
The Centre Party is a centrist and Nordic agrarian political party in Finland. It is one of the four largest political parties in the country, along with the Social Democratic Party , the National Coalition Party and the True Finns , and currently has 35 seats in the Finnish Parliament...

 
1993 - 1995 Heikki Haavisto
Heikki Haavisto
Heikki Haavisto is a Finnish politician and lobbyist. He was the Finnish foreign minister in Esko Aho's cabinet between 1993 and 1995 representing Centre Party....

 
Centre Party
Centre Party (Finland)
The Centre Party is a centrist and Nordic agrarian political party in Finland. It is one of the four largest political parties in the country, along with the Social Democratic Party , the National Coalition Party and the True Finns , and currently has 35 seats in the Finnish Parliament...

 
1995 Paavo Rantanen
Paavo Rantanen
Paavo Rantanen is a former Finnish Foreign Ministry official, who was briefly the Minister for Foreign Affairs....

 
Technical minister
1995 - 2000 Tarja Halonen
Tarja Halonen
Tarja Kaarina Halonen is the incumbent President of Finland. The first female to hold the office, Halonen had previously been a member of the parliament from 1979 to 2000 when she resigned after her election to the presidency...

 
Social Democratic Party
Social Democratic Party of Finland
The Social Democratic Party of Finland is one of the three major political parties in Finland, along with the Centre Party and the National Coalition Party. Jutta Urpilainen is the current SDP leader. The party has been in the Finnish government cabinet for long periods and has set many...

 
2000- 2007 Erkki Tuomioja
Erkki Tuomioja
Erkki Sakari Tuomioja is the Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs. He is currently a member of the Finnish Parliament.Tuomioja is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, although his political views are thought to be more to the left than the party line. He is also a member of ATTAC...

Social Democratic Party
Social Democratic Party of Finland
The Social Democratic Party of Finland is one of the three major political parties in Finland, along with the Centre Party and the National Coalition Party. Jutta Urpilainen is the current SDP leader. The party has been in the Finnish government cabinet for long periods and has set many...

2007- 2008 Ilkka Kanerva
Ilkka Kanerva
Ilkka Armas Mikael Kanerva is a member of the Finnish Parliament. He was born in Lokalahti, now a part of Uusikaupunki in Finland Proper. He was the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2008. He was forced to resign from the position due to a scandal involving hundreds of text messages he...

 
National Coalition Party 
2008- 2011 Alexander Stubb
Alexander Stubb
Cai-Göran Alexander Stubb is a Finnish politician and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 4 April 2008 to 22 June 2011...

 
National Coalition Party
2011- Erkki Tuomioja
Erkki Tuomioja
Erkki Sakari Tuomioja is the Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs. He is currently a member of the Finnish Parliament.Tuomioja is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, although his political views are thought to be more to the left than the party line. He is also a member of ATTAC...

Social Democratic Party
Social Democratic Party of Finland
The Social Democratic Party of Finland is one of the three major political parties in Finland, along with the Centre Party and the National Coalition Party. Jutta Urpilainen is the current SDP leader. The party has been in the Finnish government cabinet for long periods and has set many...

 

See also

  • Antti Turunen
    Antti Turunen
    Antti Turunen is the head of the Finnish Foreign Ministry's Eastern European and Central Asian department.-Visit to Uzbekistan:Turunen led a European Union fact-finding mission to Tashkent, Uzbekistan on August 29, 2006...

    , head of the Foreign Ministry's Eastern European and Central Asian department

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