VISITS ABROAD

1997

October 12-17, 1997
Visit by President and Mrs Ahtisaari to USA (New York and Boston)

October 10-11, 1997
Visit to Strasbourg (the Summit of the European Council)

September 10-11, 1997
Visit to Stockholm (speech before the Svenska Dagbladet Executive Club)

September 5, 1997
Visit to Vilnus (conference on coexistence of nations and good neighbourly relations)

June 15-17, 1997
Visit to Amsterdam (the Summit of the European Council)

June 13-15, 1997
Visit to Kalmar in Sweden for the 600th anniversary celebrations of the Kalmar Union

June 2-3, 1997
Visit to France (meeting of WEU parliamentarians in Paris, 3.6.97)

May 12-16, 1997
State Visit to the Republic of South Africa

April 22-24, 1997
State Visit to Poland

March 18,
1997 Visit to Karlstad in Sweden (Stora Skoghall Mill)

February 23 - March 7, 1997
Visit to Brasilia, Argentina and Chile

January 28-30, 1997
State visit to Italy

January 14-16, 1997
Visit to Denmark to celebrate Queen Margrethe II's 25th year on throne

1996

December 1-3, 1996
President Ahtisaari visits Lisbon to attend the meeting of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)

November 24-28, 1996
State visit to India

November 12, 1996
President Ahtisaari visits Tallinn to attend the official opening of the Finnish Embassy

October 25-26,1996
Visit by the President to Lithuania

October 5, 1996
President Ahtisaari visits Dublin to attend the EU Summit meeting

September 9-11, 1996
State visit by President and Mrs Ahtisaari to the Czech Republic

June 21-22, 1996
President Ahtisaari visits Florence to attend the EU Summit meeting

May 31 - June 2, 1996
President Ahtisaari visits Tallinn, Estonia (laying of the foundation stone of the As Elcoteq Tallinn factory)

May 14-15, 1996
State visit by President and Mrs Ahtisaari to the Republic of Ireland.

April 29, 1996
Visit to Sweden to attend King Carl XVI Gustaf's 50th birthday celebrations

April 15-19, 1996
State visit by President and Mrs Ahtisaari to China.

March 14, 1996
President Ahtisaari meets President Mubarak
of Egypt during landing at Aswan.

March 11-14, 1996
Official visit by President and Mrs Ahtisaari.
to the United Arab Emirates.

March 9-11, 1996
State visit by President and Mrs Ahtisaari to Kuwait .

February 16-23, 1996
Private visit by President and Mrs Ahtisaari to Spain.

January 24, 1996
Visit by the President to Strasbourg

January 16-17, 1996
State visit by President and Mrs Ahtisaari to Lithuania

January 10-11, 1996
President Ahtisaari visits Paris (to attend the memorial service for ex-President Francois Mitterand).

1995

December 14-16, 1995
Visit by the President to the summit meeting
of the European Council in Madrid

November 21-23, 1995
Visit to Belgium

October 20-26, 1995
Visit to the United Nations' Special Commemorative meeting in New York

October 17-20, 1995
State Visit in Great-Britain

September 26-28, 1995
State visit of the President to Iceland

September 16-17, 1995
Visit by the President to Berlin

August 28-29, 1995
State visit of the President to Latvia

June 26-27, 1995
Visit by the President to the European Council summit meeting in Cannes, France

May 5-9, 1995
Visit by the President to the celebrations marking the end of the Second World War

May 5-7, 1995 London
May 7-8, 1995 Paris
May 8-9, 1995 Moscow

May 1-4, 1995
State visit of the President and Mrs Ahtisaari to Namibia

March 10-12, 1995
Visit by the President to the UN summit on social development in Copenhagen

March 8-10, 1995
State visit of the President and Mrs Ahtisaari to Hungary

March 6-8, 1995
Official working visit by the President and Mrs Ahtisaari to Austria

February 20-22, 1995
Official visit of the President and Mrs Ahtisaari to France

January 17-29, 1995
Visit by the President to Southeast Asia:

January 17-21, 1995
Indonesia

January 21-24, 1995
Thailand

January 24-26, 1995
Malaysia

January 26-28, 1995
Singapore

January 16-17, 1995
Visit by the President and Mrs Ahtisaari to St Petersburg, Russia

1994

December 8-10, 1994
Visit by the President to the EU summit meeting in Essen, Germany

December 5-6, 1994
Visit by the President to the summit meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in Budapest, Hungary

November 21-25, 1994
State visit of the President and Mrs Ahtisaari to Germany

November 16-18, 1994
Visit by the President to the United States

November 6-11, 1994
Working visit by the President and Mrs Ahtisaari to the United States

October 18-20, 1994
State visit of the President and Mrs Ahtisaari to Norway

September 7-9, 1994
State visit of the President and Mrs Ahtisaari to Denmark

July 15, 1994
Visit by the President to the special summit meeting of the European Council in Brussels, Belgium

June 23-25, 1994
Visit by the President to Corfu for the European Union (EU) summit meeting

June 16-19, 1994
Visit by the President and Mrs Ahtisaari to Iceland
(50th anniversary of Iceland's declaration of independence at Thingvellir on June 17)

May 31 - June 1, 1994
State visit of the President and Mrs Ahtisaari to Estonia