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Gestrin continues the fight for the future of the Baltic Sea

Christina Gestrin, Finnish MP, member of the Nordic Council and Chairperson of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference, BSPC, will continue as chairperson in 2011. This emerged from the BPSC's nineteenth meeting which ended on Tuesday.

Aug 31, 2010
Christina Gestrin
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Next year's conference, which brings together MPs from across the Baltic Sea Region, will take place in Helsinki, Finland. It will be seen if Gestrin further develops her idea, which she presented at the start of this year's conference, to change the BSPC conference to the Baltic Parliamentary Council as a clearer stakeholder, not least in relation to the governmental co-operation in the Council of the Baltic Sea States, CBSS.

Contact: Jan Widberg, Head of BSPC Secretariat, tel: +45 24 69 94 46, e-mail: jw@norden.org

Read the resolution adopted during this year’s Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference.

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