{"id":104502,"date":"2026-06-10T11:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/104502\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T11:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:14:16","slug":"photos-ruto-received-in-helsinki-by-finnish-president-for-2-day-state-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/104502\/","title":{"rendered":"[PHOTOS] Ruto received in Helsinki by Finnish President for 2-day state visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4c23407a-aad0-448a-a925-d528f5e72977.jpeg\" class=\"ui-draggable ui-draggable-handle\" style=\"max-width: 100%; width: 100%;\"\/>President William Ruto is received by President Alexander Stubb of Finland for a two-day State visit\/PCS<\/p>\n<p>President William Ruto and First Lady Mama Rachel were on&#13;<br \/>\nWednesday officially received at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland&#13;<br \/>\nfor a two-day State visit.<\/p>\n<p>President Alexander Stubb and First Lady Suzanne Innes-Stubb&#13;<br \/>\nreceived Ruto and Mama Rachel at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya and Finland are seeking to deepen economic ties, strengthen&#13;<br \/>\npartnerships in technology, digitisation, clean energy, innovation and&#13;<br \/>\neducation, and advance new opportunities for investment, job creation and&#13;<br \/>\nshared prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya is expected to use the visit to position itself as a&#13;<br \/>\nstrategic gateway for Nordic investment into East Africa, particularly in&#13;<br \/>\ntechnology, green energy, education, and innovation sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Ruto travelled to Helsinki after a series of high-level&#13;<br \/>\nmeetings in Oslo, Norway, where he urged Norwegian businesses to expand&#13;<br \/>\ninvestments in Kenya and use the country as a gateway to the wider African&#13;<br \/>\nmarket.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8ad39a8b-2ed2-422d-95ee-a5c77ad95c06.jpeg\" class=\"ui-draggable ui-draggable-handle\" style=\"max-width: 100%; width: 100%;\"\/>President William Ruto is introduced to state officials at the Presidential Palace in Finland\/PCS<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4df2778a-0f84-45f5-bb3e-e515f65a8f70.jpeg\" class=\"ui-draggable ui-draggable-handle\" style=\"max-width: 100%; width: 100%;\"\/>A guard of honour mounted for President William Ruto at the Presidential Palace in Finland\/PCS<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7701f6aa-3181-4021-8e6e-99802e466238.jpeg\" class=\"ui-draggable ui-draggable-handle\" style=\"max-width: 100%; width: 100%;\"\/>President William Ruto and First Lady Mama Rachel are received at the Presidential Palace in Finland\/PCS<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7e95a16d-11ed-473c-b765-a78df84d8d4c.jpeg\" class=\"ui-draggable ui-draggable-handle\" style=\"max-width: 100%; width: 100%;\"\/>President William Ruto signs the visitor\u2019s book at the Presidential Palace in Finland. Looking on is President Alexander Stubb \/PCS<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4f279582-ec66-46b0-8e14-e62a24354ede.jpeg\" class=\"ui-draggable ui-draggable-handle\" style=\"max-width: 100%; width: 100%;\"\/>President William Ruto and First Lady Mama Rachel and President Alexander Stubb and First Lady Suzanne Innes-Stubb pose for a photo at the Presidential Palace in Finland\/PCS<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/bf7817e6-96fd-4ca5-9412-b00547f27346.jpeg\" class=\"ui-draggable ui-draggable-handle\" style=\"max-width: 100%; width: 100%;\"\/>President William Ruto introduces President Alexander Stubb of Finland to Kenyan officials at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki\/PCS<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/3ac6dcbb-8617-48b8-ac1c-bc19739e548e.jpeg\" class=\"ui-draggable ui-draggable-handle\" style=\"max-width: 100%; width: 100%;\"\/>President William Ruto and President Alexander Stubb of Finland inspect a guard of honour at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki\/PCS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President William Ruto is received by President Alexander Stubb of Finland for a two-day State visit\/PCS President William&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[87],"tags":[9821,829,158,113,1239,53316,39634,46085,22799,39636,39638,39632,39635,23240,53317,39639,39633,39637,52759],"class_list":["post-104502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-helsinki","tag-alexander-stubb","tag-clean-energy","tag-finland","tag-helsinki","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-finland-relations","tag-kenya-news","tag-nordic-investment","tag-star","tag-star-news","tag-star-news-kenya","tag-star-newspaper","tag-star-newspaper-kenya","tag-state-visit","tag-technology-partnership","tag-the-star","tag-the-star-kenya","tag-the-star-newspaper","tag-william-ruto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116725525356350638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}