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Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Finland)

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Annual budget
  
€1.079 billion (2017)

Headquarters
  
Helsinki, Finland

Website
  
www.formin.fi

Founded
  
28 June 1918

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Formed
  
June 28, 1918; 98 years ago (1918-06-28)

Employees
  
1,420 permanent employees 980 local employees

Ministers responsible
  
Timo Soini, Minister for Foreign Affairs Kai Mykkänen, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development

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The Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) is a ministry in the Finnish Government and is responsible for preparing and implementing the government's foreign policy.

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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 district of Helsinki.

Two ministers in the current Juha Sipilä's government have portfolios relating to the ministry:

  • Minister for Foreign Affairs, 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 23 June 2016, are:

  • Minister for Foreign and European Affairs - Timo Soini
  • Minister for Foreign Trade and Development - Kai Mykkänen

    • The current Secretary of State at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs is Peter Stenlund.

    References

    Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Finland) Wikipedia
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