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Mon, 27 Oct, 2014 12:02:01 AM Bragi Sveinsson to visit Helsinki today FTimes Report, Oct. 27
Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade of Iceland, Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson will visit Finland Monday with an aim to seek possibilities of cooperation in trade between the two countries.
Together with Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade, Lenita Toivakka, the visiting Minister will participate in a high-level breakfast event dealing with trade relations between Finland and Iceland, said a press release issued by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
The roundtable discussion will bring together Icelandic and Finnish decision-makers and corporate leaders to reflect on the possibilities for cooperation in order to increase trade between the two countries.
There is potential, among others, in tourism, the energy sector, Arctic cooperation, the IT sector and in the fields of education and design.
Finland and Iceland are highly similar with regard to corporate culture and the operating environment, said the release.
The countries' bilateral relations are already close, thanks to Nordic cooperation.
Iceland's exports to Finland in 2012 totalled 9.7 million euros. In contrast, Iceland's exports the same year to Norway, Finland's neighbouring country, stood at 211.2 million euros.
Finland's exports to Iceland in 2013 totalled 27.3 million euros. In 2007, Finland's exports was almost double, 57.1 million euros, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Foreign Minister Sveinsson will also meet Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja.
The foreign ministers will discuss, among others, topical foreign policy issues such as Russia and Ukraine, Syria and Iraq, as well as Arctic questions, said the release.
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