Secretary General, Deputy Secretary General, Madam President of the Parliamentary Assembly, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, “I am now going to say something that will astonish you.” These were the words…
Opening remarks by President of the Republic of Finland Sauli Niinistö at the Arctic Security Roundtable in Helsinki, 7 May 2019
Director of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs Teija Tiilikainen (L), President Sauli Niinistö and Chairman of the Munich Security Conference Wolfgang Ischinger. Photo: Michael Kuhlmann/MSC After my very…
Speech by President of the Republic of Finland Sauli Niinistö at the dinner for the diplomatic corps at the Presidential Palace, 2 May 2019
Photo: Juhani Kandell/Office of the President of the Republic of Finland Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, It is once again a pleasure to welcome you all to the Presidential Palace….
Speech by President of the Republic of Finland Sauli Niinistö at the opening of Parliament on 25 April 2019
Honourable Mr Speaker, Honourable representatives of the Finnish people, The Parliament which begins its work today looks again quite different from its predecessor that went out two weeks ago. The…
Speech by President of the Republic of Finland Sauli Niinistö at the closing of the electoral period 2015-2019 on 10 April 2019
Photo: Hanne Salonen/Parliament of Finland Madam Speaker, Members of Parliament, It is the duty of Parliament and its members to look to the future. To work to ensure future…
Speech by the President of the Republic of Finland, Mr. Sauli Niinistö, at the Arctic Forum in St. Petersburg, 9 April 2019
It is a great pleasure for me to participate in this forum for the third time. I want to thank you, President Putin, the Russian Government and all the organizers,…
Speech by President of the Republic of Finland Sauli Niinistö to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, 23 January 2019
Secretary-General, Madame President, Distinguished Members of the Parliamentary Assembly, Ladies and Gentlemen, 2019 is an important year for the Council of Europe. Because of its history, but also for what…
Speech by President of the Republic of Finland Sauli Niinistö at the launch of the China Finland Year of Winter Sports on 14 January 2019
President of the People’s Republic of China, Mr Xi, We have a long tradition in sports cooperation between Finland and China. It can be considered to have begun in the…
Keynote speech by President of the Republic of Finland Sauli Niinistö at the Cooling our Planet seminar in Beijing on 14 January 2019
Ladies and Gentlemen, Last year was again a record-breaker. Global land and ocean surface temperatures were among the highest in the past 140 years, when reliable statistics have existed….
President of the Republic Sauli Niinistö’s New Year’s Speech on 1 January 2019
My fellow citizens, Late this autumn, the memorial flame was burning beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. A hundred years had passed since the end of World War I….