The Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) is a
ministry
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Government
* Ministry (collective executive), the complete body of government ministers under the leadership of a prime minister
* Ministry (government department), a department of a government
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in the
Finnish Government
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and is responsible for preparing and implementing the government's foreign policy.
Organisation
The ministry in 2017 has a total budget of 1.079 billion euros, of which 675 million will be spent on development cooperation and 248 million euros on the ministry's operating expenses. Upkeep of crisis management troops will cost 50 million euros and civilian personnel 15 million.
It employs 1,420 people (of whom approximately 74% are women) as well as 980 locally hired personnel and maintains 89 overseas offices housing foreign missions.
Since 1987 the ministry has been concentrated in the
Katajanokka
Katajanokka ( sv, Skatudden) is a neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland, with around 4000 inhabitants in 2005. The district is located adjacent to the immediate downtown area, though in the first major town plan for Helsinki from the mid-18th cent ...
district of
Helsinki
Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the capital, primate, and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of . The city ...
.
Two ministers in the current
Sanna Marin
Sanna Mirella Marin (; born 16 November 1985) is a Finnish politician who has been serving as the Prime Minister of Finland since 2019. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP), she has been a Member of Parliament since 2015.
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's government have portfolios relating to the ministry:
*
Minister for Foreign Affairs
A foreign affairs minister or minister of foreign affairs (less commonly minister for foreign affairs) is generally a cabinet minister in charge of a state's foreign policy and relations. The formal title of the top official varies between cou ...
, who is in overall political control of the ministry
* Minister for Foreign Trade and Development
The most senior
civil servant is the Secretary of State, and is assisted by four Under-Secretaries of State with responsibilities allocated as follows:
* Administrative, Legal and Protocol Affairs
* Foreign and Security Policy, Communications and Culture
* External Economic Affairs
* International Development Cooperation and Development Policy
Below these, the ministry is divided into twelve departments:
* Political Department
* Department for External Economic Relations
* Department for Development Policy
* Department for Europe
* Department for Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia;
* Department for the Americas and Asia;
* Department for Africa and the Middle East.
* Department for Global Affairs
* Legal Department
* Department for Administrative Affairs
* Department for Communication and Culture
* Protocol Department
Outside of these departments there are two specialised units:
* Unit for Internal Auditing
* Unit for Policy Planning and Research
Current Ministers
The ministers, as of 6 June 2019, are:
*Minister for Foreign and European Affairs -
Pekka Haavisto
Pekka Olavi Haavisto (born 23 March 1958) is a Finnish politician of the Green League who has been serving as the Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2019.
Haavisto returned to the Finnish Parliament in the Finnish parliamentary election of M ...
*Minister for Foreign Trade and Development -
Ville Skinnari
The current Secretary of State at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs is
.
See also
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Foreign relations of Finland
The foreign relations of Finland are the responsibility of the president of Finland, who leads foreign policy in cooperation with the government. Implicitly the government is responsible for internal policy and decision making in the European ...
*
Minister for Foreign Affairs (Finland)
The minister for foreign affairs (, ) handles the Finnish Government's foreign policy and relations, and is in charge of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The minister for foreign trade and development is also associated with this ministry.
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References
External links
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Government of Finland
Foreign
Foreign may refer to:
Government
* Foreign policy, how a country interacts with other countries
* Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in many countries
** Foreign Office, a department of the UK government
** Foreign office and foreign minister
* United S ...
Foreign relations of Finland
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...