HELSINKI, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Finnish Defense Minister Jyri Hakamies will attend a meeting of Nordic defense ministers held in Skagen, Denmark, next week, according to a press release of Finnish Defense Ministry on Friday.

    At the meeting slated May 19-20, Hakamies and other defense ministers from Sweden, Norway and Denmark will discuss international crisis management, the operations in Kosovo and Afghanistan and the development of Nordic cooperation, said it.

    Civil-military cooperation as well as Nordic-Baltic cooperation will be also on the agenda, said the press release.