NGOs
Creating an Active and Innovative Civil Society
10.00 –
12.00 Official Opening, Plenary Session
Chair
persons:
Paula
Lehtomäki, MP, Finland, and Darja
Ahutina, Russian Platform of the Baltic Sea NGO Network
Welcome to
the XII NGO Baltic Sea Forum
Heikki
Talvitie, Ambassador , Chairperson of Finland-Russia Society
Music by
Ensemble of the Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic
Greetings
Satu Mattila, Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland
Johannes Hahn, Commissioner, European Union (video greetings)
Valentina Pivnenko, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Regional Affairs and North and Far East Issues, Russian Federation