HELSINKI: Finland's finance minister deleted an Instagram post and issued an apology on Friday after criticism by a human rights group that embarrassed the new, women-led government days after it took office.
"Seriously, Finland? This is awful, if true," Andrew Stroehlein, the European media director of international watchdog Human Rights Watch, wrote on Twitter on Thursday. Kulmuni, 32, said she had been expressing the views of the Centre Party which she leads, highlighting divisions on the issue with other parties in the five-party governing coalition."My aim to have a discussion on social media about a complicated topic failed. I apologise for the poll," Kulmuni tweeted on Friday."My IG poll aroused condemnation, it has been removed. The style was unsuccessful.
Marin, a Social Democrat, said on Wednesday the government had given its"silent blessing" for the foreign ministry to go ahead with a plan to repatriate the children.