The Russian city of St. Petersburg will host a conference of the prime ministers of the Baltic Sea states on April 5-6, with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to preside over the event.
Baltic prime ministers to meet with Russia's Medvedev in April
16th March 2013, 10:17
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"Russian Prime Minister Medvedev will take part in an environmental conference of Baltic Sea prime ministers," says a notice posted on the Russian government's website cited byInterfax.
It said the conference will center on preservation and recovery of the Baltic Sea environmental system and public-private partnerships as a way to promote environmental projects in the Baltic Sea region.
"A plenary meeting to be attended by the prime ministers of the member states of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) is planned for April 5. There will be a business and finance forum of the Baltic region on April 6," the notice said.
According to the Russian government website Medvedev has no bilateral meetings scheduled with the Baltic heads of government.
The conference is a part of events of the Year of Environmental Protection in Russia and Russia's CBSS chairmanship in 2012-2013.
For Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip it will be his first trip to Russia since becoming head of government in 2005.
In 2002, Estonia's then Prime Minister Siim Kallas met separately with the then prime minister of Russia, Mikhail Kasyanov, on the fringes of the prime ministers meeting of the Baltic Sea states in St. Peterbsurg.
In 2000, then Prime Minister Mart Laar attended a meeting of co-chairs and work group heads of the Estonian-Russian intergovernmental commission and met with Russia's then Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matviyenko.