Heikki Haavisto

{{Short description|Finnish politician and lobbyist (1935–2022)}}

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|honorific-prefix = Ministeri (Minister)

|name = Heikki Haavisto

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|image = Heikki-Haavisto-1987.jpg

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|office = Foreign Minister of Finland

|term_start = 5 May 1993

|term_end = 3 February 1995

|predecessor = Paavo Väyrynen

|successor = Paavo Rantanen

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|birth_date = {{Birth date|1935|8|20|df=yes}}

|birth_place = Raisio, Finland

|death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|7|22|1935|8|20|df=yes}}

|death_place = Raisio, Finland

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|party = Centre Party

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|occupation = Politician, lobbyist

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Heikki Haavisto (20 August 1935 – 22 July 2022){{cite web|url=http://www.vn.fi/tietoa-valtioneuvostosta/hallitukset/vuodesta-1917/tulokset/fi.jsp?report_id=M2&selectedCriterion.ministeri_henkilo_id=406 |title=Ministerikortisto |publisher=Valtioneuvosto (Finnish Government) |accessdate=30 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612234244/http://www.vn.fi/tietoa-valtioneuvostosta/hallitukset/vuodesta-1917/tulokset/fi.jsp?report_id=M2&selectedCriterion.ministeri_henkilo_id=406 |archivedate=12 June 2011 }} was a Finnish politician and lobbyist. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Esko Aho's cabinet between 1993 and 1995 representing Centre Party.{{cite web |url=http://formin.finland.fi/public/?contentid=41366&contentlan=1&culture=fi-FI |title=Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland – Ministers of Foreign Affairs |publisher=Valtioneuvosto.fi |accessdate=30 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716073918/http://formin.finland.fi/public/?contentid=41366&contentlan=1&culture=fi-FI |archive-date=16 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}

Haavisto was a long-term chairman of MTK, a lobby organization of Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners. He was the chairman of the organization between 1976 and 1994. He was an agronomist by education.

Haavisto was one of the chief negotiators, when Finland negotiated the accession into the European Union. He resigned as the foreign minister on 21 January 1995 due to a serious illness.