On the 1st of June, 2012 in Helsinki in the Finnish Foreign Ministry a round of bilateral policy consultations on the level of Directors-General for the Territorial Departments of the Ukrainian and Finnish Foreign Ministries was conducted. The Ukrainian Delegation was headed by Mr. Andrii Melnyk, Director-General, Third Territorial Department, the Finnish – by Ms. Nina Vaskunlahti, Director-General, Department for Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The both sides considered a wide range of issues of bilateral cooperation in different spheres of activities such as political, trade and economic, research and development. Moreover, they exchanged views on a number of recent regional and international developments as well as some issues related to Ukraine’s European integration.