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Prime Minister Sipilä expressed condolences to victims of St Petersburg metro explosion
Government Communications Department
Publication date
3.4.2017
18.55
| Published in English on 3.4.2017 at 20.08
News item
19/2017
Prime Minister Juha Sipilä has expressed his condolences on behalf of the Finnish Government to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev following the terrorist attack in a metro in St Petersburg. Sipilä stated that he condemns this shocking act.
The Prime Minister also expressed his condolences to the families and friends of the victims and to all of those affected by this tragic event.
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