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The importance of cooperation between the Baltic, Benelux and Nordic states highlighted in the Trilateral Conference On 21 May 2021, the Trilateral Conference of the Baltic Assembly, Benelux Parliament and Nordic Council “Comprehensive Security and Defence Cooperation: Shifting Landscape and Joining Forces" was held. Speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen opened the conference by highlighting the importance of cooperation between the Baltic, Benelux...

Parliamentarians discuss possibilities for Baltic cooperation in the areas of culture and space On 28 May 2021, the digital meeting of the Education, Science and Culture Committee of the Baltic Assembly was held. During the meeting, parliamentarians discussed cross-border cultural cooperation of the Baltic states and Baltic cooperation in space-related issues. Chairwoman of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia Kertu Saks introduced the parliamentarians with the implementation of the Baltic Culture...

Joint digital meeting of the Natural Resources and Environment Committee and the Economics, Energy and Innovation Committee of the Baltic Assembly On 30 April 2021, the joint digital meeting of the Natural Resources and Environment Committee and the Economics, Energy and Innovation Committee of the Baltic Assembly will be held. During the meeting, parliamentarians will discuss such topics as challenges and opportunities towards climate neutral Baltic states by 2050, including multifunctional a...

Digital meeting of the Education, Science and Culture Committee of the Baltic Assembly On 26 March 2021, the digital meeting of the Education, Science and Culture Committee of the Baltic Assembly will be held. During the meeting, parliamentarians will discuss such topics as strategic partnerships of the Baltic states in education and science, including the cooperation between the Baltic states in research and education and the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the partnership. The meeting will a...

Digital meeting of the Health, Welfare and Family Committee of the Baltic Assembly On 5 March 2021, the digital meeting of the Health, Welfare and Family Committeeof the Baltic Assembly will be held. During the Session, parliamentarians will discuss such topics as public health and health care in the light of COVID-19, including the cooperation between the Baltic states and their joint efforts to overcome the health crisis. The meeting will also cover the topic of renewing sustainable social gr...

Parliamentarians express motivation and readiness to cooperate in the aim of reaching climate neutrality On 30 April 2021, the digital joint meeting of the Natural Resources and Environment Committee and the Economics, Energy and Innovation Committee of the Baltic Assembly was held. During the meeting, parliamentarians discussed challenges and opportunities towards climate neutral Baltic states by 2050. Chair of the Natural Resources and Environment Committee Ligita Girskienė opened the joint ...

Sessions of the Baltic Assembly The Session of the Baltic Assembly is the highest body of the organisation. There are two kinds of the sessions: regular and extraordinary. A regular or an extraordinary Session of the Baltic Assembly have the power to act if more than half of the members of each national delegation are present. A proposal to convene an extraordinary Session may be submitted by each national delegation individually or jointly with other delegations. The proposal to convene an ext...

The Presidium of the Baltic Assembly expresses strong support for the Crimea Platform The Presidium of the Baltic Assembly has expressed strong support for the Crimea Platform and its overreaching goal to ensure the de-occupation of Crimea. "We welcome this initiative of Ukraine and hope that like-minded countries and organisations will join in their support for the Crimea Platform," was written in the letter addressed to President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada D...

th Session of the Baltic Assembly and the 23 rd Baltic Council to discuss cooperation in security and defence, transport and energy infrastructure, education, culture and health care as well as evaluate the implementation of the joint priorities of 2017 and define objectives of cooperation for 2018. Members of the Baltic Assembly jointly with governmental representatives discussed joint actions of the Baltic States, securing external borders of the European Union, synchronisation of the Balti...

The Baltic Assembly is an international organisation for cooperation among the parliaments of the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Latvia and the Republic of Lithuania, founded on the basis of the Joint Decision adopted by the members of the Supreme Councils of the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Latvia and the Republic of Lithuania in Vilnius on 1 December 1990. The Baltic Assembly functions on the basis of the Agreement of the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Latvia and the Repub...