From 15 to 16 May, the ministerial meeting of the Council of the Baltic Sea States is held at the Vihula Manor as part of the Estonian Presidency of the CBSS.
The foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, and the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iceland, as well as Olof Skoog, the Deputy Secretary General for Political Affairs at the European External Action Service, will attend. The focus of the meeting is on regional security and the threat Russia’s shadow fleet poses to the Baltic Sea.
Former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and former Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis will also present their report with proposals for the future of the CBSS, and a memorandum of understanding on the protection of the critical undersea infrastructure in the Baltic Sea will be signed.
We welcome journalists to cover the event at the Vihula Manor on 16 May. You can enter the meeting area at 8:30 or at 11:45.
Schedule
At 9:15, members of the media have the first opportunity to take photos of the event and film the opening session.
This is followed by a press briefing on current foreign policy topics. The details of the briefing will be confirmed next week.
At the end of the second session (ca 12:15), the memorandum of understanding on the protection of undersea infrastructure in the Baltic Sea is signed. It is possible to photograph and film the signing.
From 12:30 to 13:00, the foreign ministers of Estonia, Finland, and Poland will hold a press conference. The working language of the event is English.
Access to the area is possible only with prior registration. To register, please indicate the full name, date of birth, personal identification code and the name of the publication of the journalist, photographer or camera operator no later than 9 May at 13:00 by emailing [email protected].
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs offers transport on the route Tallinn-Vihula-Tallinn to journalists arriving in Vihula at 8:30. A separate room is allocated for journalists working on location at Vihula.