United Nordic-Baltic region will ensure economic stability and energy security
This year Finland coordinates the Nordic-Baltic Eight (NB8) cooperation with Lithuania taking over these duties next year. Lithuania and the other Baltic and Nordic countries cooperate actively in advocating the interests of the region in the EU, NATO, OSCE, and other international organizations.
"Joint efforts to strengthen the security of the region's borders, ensure its economic stability and energy security will help create general well-being and advance progress in the Baltic-Nordic area," the President said.
The President noted that the deepening of security cooperation was among next year's top priorities, including border control of the Nordic and Baltic countries, closer interaction on the Baltic Sea environmental issues as well as in cyber and energy security, using to the full extent the possibilities offered by the Vilnius-based Energy Security Center.
The President underlined that the Nordic-Baltic region - one of the most rapidly developing regions in the European Union - was a dynamic driving force to advance economic stability, growth, responsible fiscal policies, innovations, and progress.
The Nordic Baltic region aspires to be among the first to put a single information space and digital market in place for accelerating electronic settlements, information exchange and access to information.
The presidents of Lithuania and Finland emphasized that keeping the Baltic Sea clean and secure for the future generations was a key commitment for all the Baltic Sea rim countries. Specific measures binding for all the nations around the Baltic Sea were set forth at the Baltic Sea Action summit held in Helsinki last year.
