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HELSINKI: Finland's Prime Minister, Anneli Jaeaetteenmaeki, submitted her Government's resignation amid allegations that she lied to Parliament about her use of leaked secret Government documents in the March election, officials said. The President, Tarja Halonen, accepted the resignation late on Wednesday, but asked Ms Jaeaetteenmaeki and her team to stay on until a new administration was formed. Ms Jaeaetteenmaeki's Government, inaugurated on April 17 and the first to be led by a woman, lasted only 63 days. Just days before the election, Ms Jaeaetteenmaeki cited confidential Foreign Ministry documents to support her claim that the then-Prime Minister, Paavo Lipponen, was supporting the United States over Iraq, in clear defiance of Finland's official stand of neutrality. Ms Jaeaetteenmaeki went on to win the elections and oust her rival, but was subsequently accused of lying about how she got the papers, to which as head of the then-Opposition Centre Party, she was not supposed to have access. AFP
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