Speakers of the Baltic Parliaments sign a joint declaration in response to Wagner’s actions

Press release, 28 June 2023

Today, the Speakers of the Parliaments of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have issued a joint declaration in response to the recent events in Russia. The Declaration, among other things, calls on NATO to strengthen collective defence and deterrence and border security in NATO’s eastern flank and start a substantive process of inviting Ukraine to join NATO at the Summit in Vilnius, and calls for inclusion of the Wagner group in the European Union terrorist list.

Original text of the Declaration (in English)

Ilona Petrovė, Spokesperson for Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, Speaker of the Seimas, tel. +370 5 239 6030, mob. +370 698 42071, e-mail: [email protected]