Government|Sari Essayah hopes that the foreign and security policy ministerial committee would have a clarifying discussion about when to align together, when the minister can decide for himself and when to inform others.
Christian Democrats Chairman, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Sari Essayah hopes that the government will discuss the rules of the game regarding the decision-making power of the ministers in light of recent discussions.
Essayah refers to decisions related to foreign and security policy that have been featured in the news in recent days.
Essayah’s party mate Päivi Räsänen (kd) the foreign minister demanded an explanation From Elina Valton (kok) After Finland voted at the UN last Wednesday in favor of declaring Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories illegal. According to Valtonen, the decision was made in the normal way, and it was in line with Finland’s foreign and security policy.
A couple of days after that, it turned out that the Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Ville Tavio (ps) had decided in June that Finland would not participate in the equality coalition related to the reconstruction of Ukraine. Prime minister Petteri Orpon According to (kok), Tavio made the decision within his own authority.
President of the Republic Alexander Stubb criticized the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday for not informing the president about matters that belong to the Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation but are related to foreign and security policy.
Sari Essayah states to HS that it would be good to clarify three different ways of working in the foreign and security policy ministerial committee.
One of them is when the matter is in the minister’s own decision-making power and is told to others for information. The second is when the matter must be agreed together as a matter of decision.
The third is what are the issues for which the minister does not need to inform what he has decided in his ministry.
Päivi Räsänen while criticizing Finland’s UN voting decision, demanded that important issues such as the vote should definitely be dealt with in the tp-utva, i.e. in a joint meeting of the Ministerial Committee for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the President of the Republic.
According to Räsänen’s reasoning, then all the representatives of the governing parties would be involved.
Räsänen hoped that a wider political discussion could be held on the matter “in such a way that it is not just one foreign minister who decides the matter”.
Sari Essayah is also not satisfied with Finland’s UN voting decision. According to him, Finland was in the wrong company alongside Iran and Russia in supporting a bad resolution.
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