Finnish President Sauli Niinistö said that he is against issuing Finnish passports to citizens of countries where dual citizenship is not recognized, including Russian citizens. He announced this during his last annual Sunday “President’s Questions and Answers Hour” on Radio Suomi. TASS.
Presidential elections in Finland will be held on January 28. The leader of the state will be elected for a period of six years.
As Niinistö said, there was a lot of discussion on this issue in 2013. According to him, even then he only offered to grant citizenship to people from countries that mutually recognized the dual citizenship of Finns going there. He reminded that Russia does not recognize dual citizenship.
He also emphasized that he did not agree with the idea of retroactively taking Finnish passports from Russians.
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