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Russia - Moscow - Embassy of Finland in Moscow, featuring information on Finnish history, media, economy, and visas.
Denmark - Copenhagen - Has a list of the staff of, and consular information from, the Embassy of Finland in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Japan - Tokyo - With contact information for the Embassy of Finland in Tokyo, and also for the Honorary Consulate General in Osaka, and the Honorary Consulates in Sapporo, Kitakyushu, Nagano, and Nagoya.
Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea - Embassy of Finland in Canberra, accredited to Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea. Includes contact details of the Consulates-General of Finland in New South Wales, Victoria, Wellingon, the Vice-Consulates of Finland in Adelaide, Yatala, Mareeba, Perth, and the Consulates of Finland in Hobart, Darwin, Newtown, Christchurch, Dunedin, Suva, and Port Moresby.
Israel - Tel Aviv - Embassy in Tel Aviv, with information for Finns and foreigners about the embassy, visas, passports, events, and Finnish-Israeli relations.
Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay - Located in Buenos Aires and accredited to Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. Has contact information for the Honorary Consuls in Córdoba, Oberá, Rosario, Salta, Ushuaia, Asunción and Montevideo.
United Kingdom - London - Embassy of Finland in London, with a section on Finnish current affairs, and a history of Finland's diplomatic representation in the UK since 1887. In English, Finnish and Swedish.
United States - Embassy of Finland in Washington DC and the Consulates General in New York and Los Angeles. Also has contact details for the honorary consulates of Finland present in most major cities.
Romania - Bucharest - Includes some general facts about Finland, details on obtaining visas and contact information for the Embassy of Finland in Bucharest.
Indonesia - Jakarta - Includes contact information for the Embassy of Finland in Jakarta, and also for the Honorary Consulates in Bali and Medan, as well as visa and trade information. Accredited to Indonesia and East Timor.
Croatia - Zagreb - Includes contact information for the Finnish Embassy in Zagreb and for the Honorary Consul in Split.
Tanzania, Burundi, Malawi and Rwanda - Located in Dar es Salaam and accredited to Tanzania, Burundi, Malawi and Rwanda. Provides basic information about Finnish-Tanzanian relations and visa requirements, and also has links to Finnish sites.
Belgium - Brussels - Contains news, calendar of events, and information about the embassy and consular services. In English, Finnish, Swedish, French and Dutch.
Latvia - Riga - Finnish Embassy in Latvia. Features brief description of Finland's foreign policy, information about consular affairs, and about Finland and Latvia.
Serbia and Montenegro - Belgrade - Embassy of Finland in Belgrade, listing Finnish aid and development cooperation in Serbia and Montenegro.
Ireland - Dublin - Offers news from the Finnish ministry for foreign affairs, information about the Embassy of Finland in Dublin, visa and passport details, and related links.
Russia - Saint Petersburg - Consulate General of Finland in St Petersburg, with a CV of the consul general.
Hong Kong - Consulate General of Finland in Hong Kong, also representing Norway in Schengen visa matters in Hong Kong.
Hungary - Budapest - Embassy of Finland in Budapest. Presents description of embassy, information on consular affairs, facts about Finland, and a list of Finnish organizations in Hungary.
Namibia - Windhoek - Embassy of Finland in Windhoek, Namibia. Contact details, and a history of Finnish involvement in Namibia.
Canada - Ottawa - With contact details for the Embassy of Finland in Ottawa and the Consulate in Toronto, and information on Finland and Canadian-Finnish relations.
Czech Republic - Prague - Finland in The Czech Republic. Includes information on visas, work and residence permits. In English, Czech and Finnish.
Egypt - Cairo - Embassy of Finland, Cairo, accredited to Egypt and the Sudan. Describes the state of trade and development co-operation between Finland and Egypt.
Greece - Athens - Embassy of Finland in Athens, with information on Finland and Finns in Greece. Also has contact details for the Honorary consulates in Kos, Patras, Pireus, Rhodes, and Thessaloniki, and the Honorary vice consulates in Corfu and Crete.
Kenya, Ethiopia, Seychelles, Eritrea and Uganda - Embassy of Finland in Nairobi, accredited to Kenya, Ethiopia, Seychelles, Eritrea and Uganda, describing development cooperation.
India - New Delhi - Embassy of Finland in New Delhi, accredited to India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Nepal. With contact information for the consulates in Mumbai, Calcutta, Chennai, Colombo and Kathmandu. Includes Finnish travel, visa, cultural and foreign policy information.
Lithuania - Vilnius - The Embassy of Finland in Vilnius, accredited to Lithuania and Belarussia, with information on Finland and Lithuania's close agreement on foreign affairs, and on consular matters.
Mozambique - Maputo - With information about embassy services, opening hours, Finnish development co-operation projects in Mozambique and links to information resources in Finland.
Singapore - Embassy of Finland in Singapore, with information on the Finnish School and various social committees.
Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur - Embassy of Finland in Kuala Lumpur, listing Finland-related events happening in Malaysia.
Nepal - Kathmandu - Embassy of Finland in Kathmandu, describing how to apply for a Schengen visa.
Netherlands - The Hague - Has a list of the staff of the Embassy of Finland in the Hague.
Palestine - Ramallah - Representative Office of Finland in Ramallah, promoting the bilateral relations between the Finnish Government and the Palestinian Authority. Also accredited to handle Finnish relations towards Palestinian refugees through UNRWA.
Philippines - Manila - With contact information, Finnish-Philippine political and economic relations, and visa information.
South Africa - Pretoria - Embassy of Finland in Pretoria, accredited to South Africa, Botswana, Mauritius, and Namibia. Also includes contact details for the missions in Cape Town, Windhoek, Port Louis, and Gaborone.
South Korea - Seoul - Embassy of Finland in Seoul. Includes a photogallery of Finland.
Zambia - Lusaka - Embassy of Finland, Lusaka, with visa requirements for Zambians entering Finland, and information about Finnish development co-operation in Zambia.
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Abroad Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. O'Rourke I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings Abroad Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Abroad The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Abroad Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud Abroad Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Abroad Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Abroad Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Abroad In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Abroad We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw Abroad Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. -- Edward Chilton It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill Abroad The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Abroad "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Abroad The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Abroad The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry Abroad "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis Abroad University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde Abroad No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright Abroad When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion. -- Fred Astaire A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken Abroad No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains fa When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway Abroad Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Abroad A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -- G. K. Chesterton "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt Abroad
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