Gran VARTIAINEN: Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, dear members of the family, it is my personal great satisfaction to help you warmly desired you all to the beautiful capital off Finland, Helsinki, therefore the Helsinki Area Hallway. Helsinki have an effective honor so you’re able to host that it special day today. Our company is humbled as well as in great prefer to obtain the You.S. Assistant from County Antony J. Blinken here in Helsinki.
And Mika, my because of your, in order to all your cluster – the boffins in the Finnish Institute out-of Around the globe Points, to own deepening the fresh new scholarship on diplomacy, and then have enriching the public debate
Helsinki was a region in which the harmonious mix of background, development, independence, and you can diplomacy converges.