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First Channel News (17 February 2026)

Satu Koivu has been appointed as the new Head of Mission for the European Union Mission in Armenia (EUMA). She will take up her duties on 20 February 2026, taking over from Markus Ritter, the EU Council said in a press release.

The decision to appoint her as the new Head of EUMA was taken by EU’s Political and Security Committee on 17 February 2026.

Satu Koivu is a Finnish senior police officer with more than 35 years of national and international experience. She has built extensive international expertise through leadership positions within UN and EU missions in the Palestinian Territories, Rwanda, Namibia, and Cyprus. Before her appointment as EUMA Head of Mission, she was deployed in the National Police Board of Finland as Chief of Human Resources, based in Espoo, Finland.

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