President Nikos Christodoulides is to travel to Helsinki on Thursday to meet Finnish President Alexander Stubb.

According to government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis, Christodoulides and Stubb will hold a private meeting, before expanded talks will take place between delegations from Cyprus and Finland.

Later in the day, he added, the pair will attend a working meal, before Christodoulides will lay a wreath at the tomb of Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, one of the key figures in establishing and preserving Finland’s independence from the Soviet Union.

On Friday morning, he will visit Finland’s parliament, where he will meet the country’s Parliament Speaker Jussi Halla-aho and Prime Minister Petteri Orpo.

Letymbiotis said that while in Helsinki, Christodoulides will “raise issues of bilateral and European interest, geopolitical developments in the Middle East, and will present the programming and the priorities of Cyprus’ holding of the Council of the European Union’s rotating presidency in the first half of 2026”.