Parliamentary Baltic Network group established at the Swedish Parliament
On March 12th Lithuanian ambassador to Sweden Eitvydas Bajarūnas together with the Estonian and Latvian ambassadors Merle Pajula and Gints Jegermanis attended a founding meeting of a parliamentary Baltic Network group at the Swedish Parliament.
Among attendees of this event were the chairmen of the newly formed group - social democrat Björn von Sydow and moderate party parliamentarian Hans Wallmark, as well a number of members of the parliament.
The Lithuanian ambassador Eitvydas Bajarūnas welcomed the establishment of the parliamentary group. „An interparliamentary group for the relations with Nordic countries is working at the Lithuanian Parliament for quite a while now. A parliamentary Baltic Network group will play a significant role in the exchange of the information about political and security processes ongoing in Baltic States. Parliamentarians from the Nordic and Baltic countries work effectively on trying to engage the parliamentarians from Eastern Partnership countries. In the presence of Russian aggression it is very important for Swedish politicians to have detailed information about security processes taking place on another side of the Baltic Sea”, highlighted ambassador E. Bajarūnas.
During the meeting the main goals of the group were discussed, which include debate on security and energy issues, promoting exchange of parliamentary visits and developing direct contacts between the political parties.
A parliamentary Baltic Network group was working at the previous Swedish parliament, and the chairmen to that group were conservative party member Mats Johansson and social democrat, current speaker of the Swedish Parliament Urban Ahlin.
