Nordic and Baltic Foreign Ministers meeting begins
26.08.2010
26 August 2010
Today and tomorrow, Minister of Foreign Affairs Urmas Paet will be participating at the meeting of the foreign ministers of Estonia, Sweden, Finland, Norway; Denmark, Iceland, Lithuania, and Latvia held in Riga, where the agenda includes the report on Nordic and Baltic cooperation as well as cooperation in various aspects of international policy.
According to Foreign Minister Paet, the central goal for the Nordic and Baltic foreign ministers in Riga will be to analyze ideas submitted by each country and experts with regard to the cooperation report . "Even analysis of current cooperation prospects may result in further suggestions in all of the fields planned thus far -- be they defense cooperation, development cooperation, consular cooperation, maritime monitoring or some other area of cooperation,“ said Paet.
Besides the cooperation report, the meeting of the foreign ministers will address the situation in Afghanistan, aspects related to the NATO's strategic concept, and preparations for the OSCE summit.
Today, on 26 August, the political directors of the foreign ministries will also meet in Riga in the framework of the NB8 meeting. Besides discussing Nordic and Baltic cooperative relations, the political directors will also address relations with Turkey, Russia and the EU's Eastern Partnership.
