On 19 December 1989, Roland Dumas, French Foreign Minister and President-in-Office of the Council of Ministers of the European Community, Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson, Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade and current Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), Anita Gradin, Swedish Minister for Foreign Trade and Chairman of the EFTA Council of Ministers in the first half of 1990, Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, Head of the Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Alois Mock, Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Pertti Paasio, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Kjell Magne Bondevik, Norwegian Minister for Foreign Affairs, comment on the joint declaration adopted following the EFTA-EC ministerial meeting held in Brussels.