Mayor VARTIAINEN: The Excellencies, ladies and you may men, dear friends, it’s my higher satisfaction so you’re able to passionately anticipate everyone so you’re able to the wonderful financial support from Finland, Helsinki, and the Helsinki Town Hallway. Helsinki has a good prize in order to servers this special occasion now. We are humbled and in great appreciate to get the U.S. Secretary off State Antony J. Blinken here in Helsinki.
And Mika, my personal due to your, also to your entire cluster – all scientists from the Finnish Institute regarding All over the world Things, to have deepening new scholarship regarding diplomacy, as well as have enriching the public discussion
Helsinki is actually a community in which the harmonious mixture of background, innovation, independence, and diplomacy converges. The capital try features come a stadium having multiple higher-peak meetings and political events, and we also is actually happy to provide the system for this historic second, now let’s talk about the 1st time since the proud financing of a good the new NATO Ally.
Now it’s my personal great satisfaction to introduce the co-coordinator of your own experience, Dr. Mika Aaltola, the newest director of your Finnish Institute off In the world Circumstances. Thanks a lot. (Applause.)
It’s the first-time you to a Us assistant out-of county really stands into good stone ground from NATO Finland. Assistant Blinken’s go to is short for a different era regarding Finnish-U.S. relationships that have long historic ties. Nothing you’ve seen prior have the relations between our very own a couple of nations started that it close.
MR AALTOLA: Their Excellencies, ladies’ and you can men, this will be a really historic time
And now being NATO Partners, Finland additionally the United states work together to enhance the bilateral defense collaboration.