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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 meeting by highlighting the importance of the green transition in the Baltic states: “By 2050, Lit...

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 extraordinary Session must be well founded, indicating the issues for consideration. The Session can ad...

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 Dmytro Razumkov and Prime Minister of Ukraine Shmyhal Denys. The Presidium of the Baltic Assembly rei...

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 Baltic electricity networks with the European Networks, Baltic Alliance of Apprenticeship and Work Based ...

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 Republic of Lithuania on Parliamentary and Intergovernmental Cooperation of the Baltic States signed in T...