In this sense the theme for you conference, North America in the World, and the World in North America, is more than appropriate. *** Today’s speech I will raise three central themes that have to do with Finland’s transatlantic relations, in a historic perspective. Firstly, Finland was the only country to fully serve its debt to the United States after World War I.
Everest in the face of great risk. As documented, they were the very first mountain climbers to reach the summit. Now, sixty-four (64) years later, the peak of Everest is decidedly less lonely and more than 3,500 climbers have already reached the top or “summitted”. A myriad of things have changed since then.