The keynote speaker of the Martti Ahtisaari Lecture in Jyväskylä will be the President of Estonia Alar Karis - The lecture is open to the public and will take place on 13[...]

21.12.2023

The keynote speaker of the Martti Ahtisaari Lecture in Jyväskylä will be the President of Estonia Alar Karis - The lecture is open to the public and will take place on 13 February 2024

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The Martti Ahtisaari lecture series will continue in February. The keynote address will be given by the President of Estonia, Alar Karis. The sixteenth Martti Ahtisaari Lecture, to be held in Jyväskylä on 13 February 2024, will be a discussion event in memory of Martti Ahtisaari and in honour of his legacy of peace work.

The Martti Ahtisaari Lecture series will continue in Jyväskylä by addressing issues related to European security and mediation that concern both Finland and Estonia.

The sixteenth Martti Ahtisaari Lecture will take place in the University of Jyväskylä's Ballroom on 13 February at 15.00. Further details will be announced closer to the event.

The lecture is open to the public. The programme will be updated on the City of Jyväskylä's website: Martti Ahtisaari Lecture.

The lecture will also be broadcast live on the website of Sanomalehti Keskisuomalainen at www.ksml.fi.

Martti Ahtisaari Lecture to be held in Jyväskylä for the sixteenth time

With the support of the President of the Republic of Finland Martti Ahtisaari , the presidents of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland gathered in Jyväskylä on the 10th anniversary of the end of the Cold War, on 8 November 1999.

The presidents of the five republics estimated the prospects of both their own countries and Europe in the public event.

In February 2000 president Ahtisaari gave a permission to organize an annual lecture in his name. Since then, the lecture is organized in Jyväskylä Finland in several years. President Martti Ahtisaari himself gave a lecture in 2007.

Each lecture has dealt with aspects of Ahtisaari's work: politics, international relations, and current world events. In the lecture state and political leaders have shed light on current issues, mainly concerned with security between states.

The lecture is organized by the City of Jyväskylä, University of Jyväskylä, newspaper Keskisuomalainen and the Central Finland National Defence Association.

More information:

City of Jyväskylä, Administrative Director Heli Leinonkoski, tel. +358 50 365 4287 (on vacation 21.12.-27.12.2023) and Internatioal Relations Manager Satu Heikkinen, tel. +358 50 325 5110

University of Jyväskylä, Head of Relations, Anu Mustonen, tel. +358 50 564 9022

Mediahouse Keskisuomalainen,Deputy Editor-In-Chief Inkeri Pasanen, tel. +358 14 622 253

Central Finland National Defence Association, Heikki Tervanen, tel. +358 50 593 5764