ENERGY ISOLATION ISSUES OF THE BALTIC STATES RECEIVED MOST ATTENTION DURING A CONFERENCE DEDICATED TO THE BALTIC SEA STRATEGY
On 5-6 December in Viljandi, Estonia, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Deividas Matulionis took part in the 27th Session of the Baltic Assembly and the 14th Baltic Council, which is a joint meeting of the Baltic Ministers’ Council and the Baltic Assembly. During the Baltic Assembly Conference “Baltic Sea Strategy and Energy Security”, D.Matulionis drew everybody’s attention to the need to actively solve problems of energy isolation of the Baltic States and to create an open and friendly image of the Baltic Sea region.
In State Secretary of Foreign Ministry D.Matulionis’s opinion, the Baltic Sea Strategy that is currently being drafted by the European Commission has to promote closer relations between residents of the EU and other countries in the region, first of all Russia and Belarus.
Representatives from Latvian and Estonian Foreign Ministries, parliamentarians from the Baltic States, representatives from other institutions, experts of social, economic, environmental and educational affairs, and others also gave speeches during the conference, which was organised at the initiative of Estonia, which is holding a chairmanship of the Baltic Assembly and the Baltic Ministers’ Council in 2008.
During the Baltic Council, the State Secretary of Foreign Ministry presented priorities of Lithuanian chairmanship of the Baltic Ministers’ Council and the Baltic Assembly. He paid major attention to the issues of security, energy and infrastructure links, relations with the EU neighbours in the East and the significance of cooperation among the Baltic States, while they are facing the economic crisis.
On 1 January 2009, Lithuania will take over the chairmanship of the Baltic Ministers’ Council and the Baltic Assembly from Estonia.
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