Baltic Assembly announces medal winners

RIGA -- The Baltic Assembly has announced the winners of it's annual awards and is due to deliver the prizes at a ceremony on Oct. 21.

The BA medal will be awarded to Carl Bildt, the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Bart Tommelein, President of the  Benelux Parliament, and Edward Lucas, international editor of The Economist magazine and correspondent for Central and Eastern Europe, for their outstanding services in strengthening the unity and supporting the cooperation of the Baltic States, a press release said.

Awards will also be given to prominent members of the parliaments of the three Baltic States, as well as to Boriss Rezņiks, a Latvian composer and author of the song „Atmostas Baltija” (“Wake Up, Baltic Countries”), and to Peep Mühls, an Estonian scientist and Chairman of Executive Board of the Estonian Cooperation Assembly.

The Baltic Assembly is an interparliamentary cooperation organisation of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania established for coordinating the Baltic States' cooperation on the parliamentary level, discussing issues and projects of mutual interest and expressing a common position on political, economic, social and cultural issues on the EU and international level. The Baltic Assembly consists of national delegations – 12 to 20 members from each country’s parliament.