Overview
Kazakhstan and Finland established diplomatic relations on May 13, 1992.
Finland Embassy in Kazakhstan was opened on March 3, 2010.
The Embassy of Kazakhstan was opened in Finland on March 15, 2012.
Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Finland is Zhanna Sartbayeva.
Ambassador of Finland to Kazakhstan is Soili Mäkeläinen-Buhanist.
Political cooperation
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with President of Finland Sauli Niinistö at the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 19, 2023
President Nursultan Nazarbayev visited Finland in 2009 and 2018.
President of Finland Mauno Koivisto visited Kazakhstan in 1992. President of Finland Tarja Halonen visited Kazakhstan in 2010. President of Finland Sauli Niinistö visited Kazakhstan in 2013 and also attended the Congress of the Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in 2015 and the EXPO-2017 in Kazakhstan.
On November 30, 2023, Minister of Foreign Affairs Murat Nurtleu met with his Finnish counterpart Elina Valtonen within the framework of the OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in Skopje.
Political consultations between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan and Finland were launched in 2010.
Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Groups were established in the Parliaments of Kazakhstan and Finland.
Trade and economic cooperation
Bilateral trade between Kazakhstan and Finland in 2023 reached $208 million (export – 3 million, import – 205 million); in 2022 – $202.2 million.
Since 2005 to the 3rd quarter of 2023, the gross inflow of direct investments from Finland to Kazakhstan reached 409.5 million dollars.
The Kazakh-Finnish Intergovernmental Commission for Trade and Economic Cooperation (IGC) was established in 1993. To date, the IGC held 12 meetings.