Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Ville Tavio (PS) reacted at the Annual Meeting of Heads of Missions in Helsinki on Monday, 21 August 2023. Tavio on Monday confirmed that the government will make international co-operation conditional on countries’ willingness to receive their citizens and opposition to Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine. (Markku Ulander – Lehtikuva)
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MINISTER for Foreign Trade and Development Ville Tavio (PS) on Monday confirmed that the government will slash the number of country-specific international development programmes during the course of the electoral term, reports Helsingin Sanomat.
The programmes, he revealed, will be targeted especially to countries that are willing to receive their own citizens and that do not support the war of aggression waged in Ukraine by Russia.
“I’ve launched official preparatory work for taking these conditions into consideration in future programmes, and I’ll be actively bringing up these issues on the international arena,” he stated at the Annual Meeting of Heads of Mission in Helsinki on Monday.
“I have confidence in your expertise when it comes to the prioritisation.”
The government programme states that appropriations for international co-operation will be reduced by almost 250 million euros by the end of the electoral term compared with the spending framework for 2027. Tavio on Monday declined to speculate on what kind of cost-saving measuress the reductions will necessitate in the domain of human re according to Helsingin Sanomat.
Valtonen told that decisions about the possibility of closing down or scaling down embassies will be made over a longer period of time. Finland, she added, also wants to explore joint solutions with other Nordics and EU countries.
“The Ministry for Foreign Affairs’ organisation has been unchanged in terms of its core parts since 1998. A lot has happened in 25 years, and these changes should also be visible in the diplomatic service,” she justified.
Aleksi Teivainen – HT
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