TALLINN - Deputy speaker of the Estonian parliament, Arvo Aller, is participating in the joint visit of the speakers of the parliaments of the Nordic and Baltic countries to Sarajevo to express support to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s independence and progress towards the EU and NATO.
During the visit, there will be meetings in the presidency, the parliamentary assembly, the government, and with representatives of civil society.
Aller stressed that in those meetings Estonia will express its support to the territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, its sovereignty, its multi-ethnic state institutions and its constitutional order. The constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the cornerstone of peace in the country and must be respected.
"Estonia supports the integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina into Euro-Atlantic structures, including NATO and the EU. The door to both organizations remains open for the country, but further homework and reforms are needed," Aller said.
He encouraged Bosnia and Herzegovina to continue on this path.
"Estonia is ready to share its reform and integration experience if needed," Aller added.
He noted that the joint visit of the NB8 speakers is an example of close and mutually beneficial cooperation between neighboring countries, which could also serve as a source of inspiration for more effective action in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as for greater cooperation with the country’s neighbors in the Balkan region and with the EU and NATO.
The Nordic-Baltic cooperation, or NB8, has been bringing Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania around the same table since 1992. The first meeting of the NB8 speakers took place in 1997 in Karlskrona, Sweden. The previous joint visit of the NB8 speakers took place in January this year to Armenia.
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