Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto (Green) told Yle that he found new revelations about China's treatment of its Uighur population "very worrying."
Earlier this week, Yle and other international media outlets reported on a large-scale data leak that offered new insight into China's repression of Muslim minorities in the western Xinjiang Province.
The data confirmed previous estimates that China has transferred at least one to two million Uighurs into detention centres, prisons, and labour camps in Xinjiang. China has referred to these camps as "re-education centres," where religious extremism, among other things, is eradicated.
"There are issues that we are very concerned about, of course," Haavisto said in Washington on Friday.
Haavisto said that the matter has already been discussed in the UN Human Rights Council, of which Finland is a member.
"My impression is that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights [Michelle] Bachelet has travelled to China for exactly this reason, and we are waiting for her report," Haavisto told Yle.
Bachelet's six-day visit to China is coming to an end where she had plans to visit Xinjiang. The Commissioner for Human Rights is scheduled to hold a press conference on Saturday.
Yle asked Haavisto if the new information would affect Finland's policy towards China.
"Certainly all such human rights issues and other issues are considered in our relations with China, but above all, of course, we strive to contribute to the improvement of human rights through the UN and the UN Human Rights Council," Haavisto said.