Minister of Agriculture and the Environment Kimmo Tiilikainen on a Team Finland visit to Iran

From the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

Minister of Agriculture and the Environment Kimmo Tiilikainen heads a Finnish business delegation on a visit to Iran on 27 February–2 March 2016.

By this visit Minister Tiilikainen supports the Team Finland efforts to increase Finnish cleantech, agrotechnology and food industry exports to Iran. Now that the sanctions have been lifted, a market of 80 million people is being opened up. Foreign expertise and investments are needed especially in environmental infrastructure, agriculture, forestry and food production. The economy of Iran is estimated to grow by five to eight per cent in the next few years.

Minister Tiilikainen will attend the International Environment Exhibition Enviro 2016 in Tehran, also as one of the keynote speakers at the opening event. During the visit the minister will meet Masoumeh Ebtekar, the Vice President of Iran and head of Environmental Protection Organization, with whom he will sign a cooperation agreement on environmental protection. The minister will also meet the Minister of Agriculture Mahmoud Hojjati, Minister of Energy Hamid Chitchian and Mayor of Tehran Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf. 

More information:

Ismo Tiainen, Director of Administration and International Affairs, Ministry of the Environment, tel. +358 40 504 7494, [email protected]

Aulikki Hulmi, Director of International Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry,
tel. + 358 40 746 5802, [email protected]