FINLAND: OPENING REMARKS BY PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF FINLAND TARJA HALONEN AT THE ASEM 7 SUMMIT IN BEIJING, 24 OCTOBER 2008
October 24, 2008
October 24, 2008
HELSINKI, Finland, Oct. 24 - The office of the President of Finland issued the following news release:
It is a great pleasure to be in Beijing and bring - as the President of the previous host country - the best regards from our Prime Minister and Government, from all of us, to this opening session of the Seventh ASEM Summit.
Two years ago we met up in the north, in the capital of Finland. The overall theme of that Summit was "10 Years of ASEM: Global Challen . . .
It is a great pleasure to be in Beijing and bring - as the President of the previous host country - the best regards from our Prime Minister and Government, from all of us, to this opening session of the Seventh ASEM Summit.
Two years ago we met up in the north, in the capital of Finland. The overall theme of that Summit was "10 Years of ASEM: Global Challen . . .