01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: Andris Pelss, (l.t.r.) State Secretary from Latvia, Thordis Kolbrun Reykfjörd Gylfadottir, Foreign Minister of Iceland, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Foreign Minister of Denmark, Manuela Schwesig (SPD), the Minister President of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Tobias Billström, Foreign Minister of Sweden, Annalena Baerbock (BŁndnis 90/Die GrŁnen), Federal Foreign Minister, and Klara Geywitz (SPD), Federal Minister of Construction and Housing, walk to the meeting venue in the port of Wismar at the start of the Council of the Baltic Sea States meeting. At the meeting of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, the eight Baltic Sea states of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, Iceland, Norway and the EU are discussing further responses to Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, increasing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies and the salvage of ammunition and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens BŁttner/dpa