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Halonen and said
Halonen later said that her mother was a true survivor, always an extremely active and resilient person who valued good, honest and modest hardworking people.
In a 2001 Halonen said that she is worried about the Russian response if NATO approved membership bids by Baltic countries.

Halonen and she
It has been questioned whether President Tarja Halonen represented only Finland or the entire EU when she met with President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
In 2004, Finnish President Tarja Halonen visited Nicaragua where she stated " The Finnish government and Parliament have decided that Nicaragua is one of the main targets of Finnish development aid.
Halonen is a graduate of the University of Helsinki, where she studied law from 1963 to 1968.
When she entered politics, Halonen stated that these are also the qualities and attributes she respects in people.
Working in the Parliament made Halonen even more interested in politics and she decided to take part in the municipal elections of 1976.
In 1987, Halonen was appointed by Prime Minister Harri Holkeri to be the Minister of Social Affairs and Health in the government, a position she held until 1990.
Halonen announced in 1999 that she wished to stand as a candidate for President in the 2000 Presidential elections.
Halonen was a surprising candidate as she didn't represent many traditional values: She was known as a left-wing social democratic party member, who lived in a domestic partnership, was a single parent and had resigned from the national church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland.
While Halonen started from fourth place in the presidential election polls, surprisingly in the first round of the elections she got the most votes, 40. 0 %.
Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga asked what she meant and whether Halonen is actively opposing NATO membership of Baltic countries.
On 20 May 2005, Halonen held a press conference in Mäntyniemi where she announced her willingness to run for a second term.
Today, the church accepts women as priests and Halonen has stated that she has no personal reason not to return to the church but refrains from doing so in order not to give a signal that might be misinterpreted.

Halonen and flyers
In those flyers, " Niinistö is presented as the horror of worker, whereas SAK-supported Halonen is like a worker's dream ".

Halonen and .
This was reversed in the 2000s, when Tarja Halonen and Erkki Tuomioja made Finland's official policy to resist other EU members ' plans for common defense.
However, Halonen allowed Finland to join European Union Battlegroups in 2006 and the NATO Response Force in 2008.
In a cohabitation situation as with Matti Vanhanen's recent second government right-wing government and left-wing President Tarja Halonen, there can be friction between government ministers and the president.
Tarja Kaarina Halonen (; born 24 December 1943 ) was the 11th President of Finland, serving from 2000 to 2012.
The first female to hold the office, Halonen had previously been a member of the parliament from 1979 to 2000 until her election to the presidency.
Halonen served in the parliament of Finland for six terms, from 1979 to 2000, representing the constituency of Helsinki.
Ineligible to run in the 2012 presidential elections due to term limits, Halonen left office on 1 March 2012.
Halonen is widely known for her interest in human rights issues.
In 1980 – 81 Halonen served as the chairman of SETA, the main LGBT rights organization in Finland.
Halonen is a member of the Council of Women World Leaders, an International network of current and former women presidents and prime ministers whose mission is to mobilize the highest-level women leaders globally for collective action on issues of critical importance to women and equitable development.
5-year-old Tarja Halonen in 1948.
Tarja Halonen was born on 24 December 1943 in the district of Kallio which is a traditional working-class area in central Helsinki.
Her mother Lyyli Elina Loimola was a set-dresser and her father Vieno Olavi Halonen worked as a welder.
Vieno Halonen was at the frontline and Lyyli Halonen was working in a shoe factory when their daughter was born.
After the war the couple decided to get a divorce, and in 1950 Lyyli Halonen married her new husband Thure Forss, who worked as an electrician and was very active in the working-class community.
In 1974 Prime Minister Kalevi Sorsa appointed Halonen as his parliamentary secretary.

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`` We're not drunkards '', she said.
`` I saw your fire '', she said, speaking slowly, making an effort to control her anger.
`` I'm not advising you '', she said.
`` Carwood didn't tell you that '', she said.
`` Never mind '', she said sternly.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
`` Aah, go on '', she said.
`` Well, let's get going '', she said impatiently.
Mrs. Roebuck very kindly let me drive through Sante Fe to a road which would, she said, lead us to Taos and then Raton and `` eventshahleh '' out of New Mexico.
`` You may have seen me on TV '', she said.
`` And I so want the part '', she said.
`` I'm starting to itch '', she said.
I showed her the shower and tub, and she said, smiling, `` If you really don't mind, I think I'll get clean in the shower, then soak for a few minutes in your tub.
That was all she said.
When we opened the door again for business and switched on the lights she said:
`` I don't know '', she said.
`` I guess so '', she said.
`` Yes '', she said, almost in a whisper, as if admitting to a crime.
she would talk to him in a soothing voice about things his mother would have said were not nice and put her hands on him and kiss him passionately.
Occasionally he would look across the aisle at Margaret, fourteen and demure in a fresh green organdy dress, sitting in the sixth-grade row, and he could hardly believe she would do what Charles had said she did.
While she was struggling to get her skirt down and get on her feet again, Jack ran over, offered her his hand and said, `` Gosh, I'm sorry, Miss Langford.

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