The delegation of the Nordic Council will visit Belarus on September 10
September 7, Minsk /Natalia Ilyicheva - BELTA/. A delegation of the Nordic Council, led by its chairman, member of the Parliament of the Kingdom of Sweden Sinikka Bohlin, will visit Belarus on September 10. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the House of Representatives of the National Assembly.
The foreign guests intend to meet with the leadership of the lower house of the Belarusian parliament and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus. The delegation members also plan to visit environmental and energy facilities in the Vitebsk region, during which issues of attracting investments from Northern European countries to Belarus will be discussed. The visit of the foreign parliamentarians will last until September 12.
The Nordic Council is an organization for parliamentary cooperation of the Nordic countries, uniting deputies from the parliaments of five states (Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Sweden) and three autonomous territories (the Åland Islands, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland). It prepares recommendations for the Nordic Council of Ministers, which was established as a forum for cooperation between the governments of the Scandinavian states. The bodies of the Nordic Council are the Presidium, the Plenary Session, and committees. -0-