Subject: Prime Minister/FINLAND
From: Hannele Lehtikuusi <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 17:02:13 +0300 (EET DST)

Hannele Lehtikuusi
chairperson
SETA
Finland

May 29

TV News covered well the information about the Private Bill
on the same sex partnership law. (See my previous postings.)

Notable was also the fact that Prime Minister Mr Paavo Lipponen
gave full support to the Private Bill!

It is known that only 3 ministers out of 18 are opposing the
parnership law. Also in the Cabinet the ministers have had
their discussion (in March) in vain: the Minister of Justice refused to
make any effort to prepare the law.