Press release
25 August 2010
Ministry of the Environment
Andreas Carlgren presents the priorities of the Swedish Chairmanship of HELCOM to tackle the environmental challenges of the Bal
Tomorrow, Wednesday 25 August, Sweden will host a meeting of environment ministers on the Baltic Sea environment. Ministers and high-ranking representatives of all Baltic Sea states will attend the seminar entitled "Building marine policy on best available knowledge". This is the first meeting under the Swedish Chairmanship of Baltic Sea cooperation body HELCOM. Minister for the Environment Andreas Carlgren will present increased efforts to save the Baltic Sea environment.
Time and place
Place: Rosenbad Press Centre, Rosenbad, Stockholm
Time: 14.30.
On 1 July Sweden assumed the Chairmanship of the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM) for the protection of the Baltic marine environment. Tomorrow, Wednesday 25 August, the first meeting within the framework of this Chairmanship will be held in Stockholm. Five ministers will be attending the meeting and participating in the panel discussion on how HELCOM and other ongoing processes are to deliver measures.
Mr Carlgren will present the priorities and proposals of the Swedish Chairmanship for how cooperation under HELCOM is to be developed in order to tackle the environmental challenges of the Baltic Sea. The Swedish Chairmanship wants to strengthen work on the joint action plan that was adopted in 2007 to ensure that sufficient measures are implemented for the Baltic Sea. The seminar will be attended by 80 participants from the contracting parties to HELCOM.
There will be an opportunity to meet the ministers following the ministerial discussion in the programme.
The following ministers will attend the seminar and will be available to the media: Andreas Carlgren from Sweden, Jaanus Tamkivi from Estonia, Paula Lehtomäki from Finland, Raimonds Vejonis from Latvia and Andrzej Kraszewski from Poland.
Media are also welcome to follow the meeting to be held at the Rosenbad Conference Centre, Drottninggatan 1, Stockholm. Mr Carlgren will open the seminar at 09.30. The ministerial session will follow at 12.30.
Please notify Press Assistant Eva Lena Fahlström if you wish to attend the seminar.
Please bring your press credentials.
Contact
Eva-Lena FahlströmPress Assistant
+46 8 405 20 44
+46 70 699 39 95
email to Eva-Lena Fahlström, via the Senior registry clerk
