Finland's Policy on Relations with Developing Countries presents measures which promote Finland's own national interests and common global or regional goals. In a global world, Finland shares the same long-term interests as the developing countries. The strategy examines Finland's relations with the developing countries as comprehensively as possible. The Finnish aim is to harmonize its foreign and security policy, trade policy and development cooperation. This policy paper on Finland's relations with developing countries recognizes that the developing countries bring different levels of development to their participation in the building of a common world and voices Finland's readiness to support them in the implementation of common values and aims.
Globalization boosts the use of economic resources and increases interaction between cultures.
Promotion of trade and economic interaction is crucial. On the other hand, globalization may weaken the ability of developing countries to govern their own economic or social development. Finland emphasizes the importance of cooperation with the least developed countries and the poorest population groups. In the 1990s, the United Nations has raised several questions which are of common interest to the industrialized and the developing countries and issued a set of guidelines for the management of globalization. This Global Agenda emerged as a result of the UN world conferences.