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18th Ministerial Meeting of the Barents Euro-Arctic Council

Tromsø, Norway
26 October 2021 9 a.m.-2 p.m. C.E.T.

Agenda

1. Opening session
   Video and artistic performance
   Welcome by Norway’s Minister of Foreign Affairs
   Welcome by the President of the Sámi Parliament of Norway
2. Approval of the agenda
3. Interventions by BEAC-members
4. Interventions by the Chair of the Regional Council, Västerbotten and the incoming chair Nenets Autonomous Okrug
5. Presentations by working groups
   Indigenous Peoples
   Health and Related Social Issues
   Transport and Logistics
   Barents Forest Sector
   Rescue Cooperation in the Barents Region
   The Action Plan on Climate Change
6. Adoption of the Barents Action Plan on Climate Change
7. Adoption of the Barents Financial Mechanism
8. Report from the chair of the Committee of Senior Officials
9. Chairmanship handover
   Presentation of Finland’s Chairmanship Program by Foreign Minister of Finland Pekka Haavisto
   Concluding remarks by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway
   Handover of the chairmanship from Norway to Finland
10. Signing of the Ministerial Declaration
11. Group photo

BREAK 10.45 a.m.–11.15 a.m.

Youth Summit: 11.15 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.

Armchair conversation with the ministers and youth representatives.
The meeting is organised by Norway and Västerbotten in close cooperation with the Barents Regional Youth Council (BRYC).

Moderators
Martin Gamst Johnsen, Deputy chair of BRYC, Troms & Finnmark County, Norway
Maria Grånemo, BRYC representative, Västerbotten, Sweden

Participating youth representatives

• Daria Makhotina, BRYC representative, Murmansk, Russia
• Kosma Rönkä, BRYC representative, Oulu, Finland
• Anette Bang, BRYC representative, Nordland County, Norway
• Enni Similä, Chair of Saami youth, Finland
• Karina Burman, BRYC-representative of Norrbotten, Sweden

Press opportunity: 12.30 p.m.–1.00 p.m.

Lunch & Awarding ceremony Barents Cultural scholarship: 1.00 p.m.–2.00 p.m.

Welcome by Mayor of the City of Tromsø, Gunnar Wilhelmsen

Artistic performance featuring Emil Karlsen and Ekaterina Efremova

Award ceremony for the Barents Cultural Scholarship. The ministers from Norway, Finland, Russia and Sweden will award the prizes to the winners from their respective countries.

Artistic performance by former Norwegian prizewinner Ola Asdahl Rokkones and musicians from the Norwegian Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra.

Closure of the meeting: 2.00 p.m.

Practical information

Both the Barents Euro-Arctic Council ministerial and the Youth Summit are by invitation only. Observers are kindly invited to follow the streaming of the meeting here: https://ctnor.live/barents-tromso

The meetings will be conducted in English with an option for Russian. Simultanous interpretation (English-Russian and Russian-English) will be provided.