Press conference concludes Council of Europe meeting Finnish Foreign Minister Timo Soini and French Secretary of State for European Affairs Amelie de Montchalin give a press conference at the end of a meeting of the Council of Europe in Finland. The Helsinki meeting, at which the rotating presidency was handed from Finland to France, attempted to resolve a major crisis with Moscow after its representatives to the body's Parliamentary Assembly were stripped of their voting rights because of Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES