International activities

The visit’s agenda included discussions on a provisional free trade zone agreement between Iran and the EAEU and a preferential trade agreement with Iran.

By decision of Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Kai Mykkänen, Finland will grant EUR 500,000 to the Finnish Red Cross for humanitarian aid activities in Iraq.

Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Kai Mykkänen met Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi in the capital city Nay Pyi Taw today.

The sanctions against Russia have failed from both a political and economic perspective.

Georgian Minister of Defence Levan Izoria will make an official visit to Finland on 22 to 24 January 2017. The visit will be hosted by the Finnish Minister of Defence Jussi Niinistö.

Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Kai Mykkänen will lead a Team Finland visit to the United Arab Emirates on 16-19 January 2017.

Importantly also, the bill says that no U.S. Federal agency shall take any action or extend any assistance that recognizes or implies any recognition of the de jure or de facto sovereignty of the Russian Federation over Crimea or its airspace or territorial waters.

Officials from Russia, India and China, meeting for the Small Business Forum, said Russia lacks a market for the goods produced by small businesses because of the crisis in domestic demand.

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia Ivica Dacic met with Ms. Lyubov Glebova, Head of Rossotrudnichestvo - the Russian Federation's Federal Agency for CIS Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation.

Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister of Finland Juha Sipila will continue the discussion of current aspects of bilateral trade and economic cooperation, which they began at a meeting in St Petersburg on 29 January 2016.

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko will travel to the Russian Federation on a working visit on 22 November.

Vladimir Putin sent his condolences to Indian President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in connection with the tragic aftermath of a railway accident in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

A Gazprom delegation headed by Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company’s Management Committee, is attending the Summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders in Lima, Peru.