FINNISH EVACUEES TO ARRIVE IN ESTONIA FROM GEORGIA

Newsroom Finland
12.8.2008 at 9:55
Finland

A total of seven Finns who have been evacuated from Georgia are to
arrive by plane in Tallinn, Estonia, on Tuesday morning and then
continue on to Finland, the Finnish foreign ministry told the Finnish
News Agency (STT) on Monday evening.

Estonia’s embassy in Georgia evacuated the Finns to the Armenian
capital Yerevan where they were put on a special flight for Estonian
citizens headed for Tallinn.

Finland does not have its own embassy in Georgia.

According to the Finnish foreign ministry, a couple of Finns left
Georgia on their own steam already during the weekend to escape the
conflict. Eight Finns have chosen to remain in the country, three
of them working for the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE), of which Finland currently holds the chairmanship.