OREANDA-NEWS. March 31, 2008. On March 30-31 Ivars Godmanis, Prime Minister of the Republic of Latvia, will pay a working visit to Sweden and meet Frederik Reinfeldt, Prime Minister of Sweden, Anders Borg, Minister for Finance of Sweden, and Maud Oloffsson, Minister for Enterprise and Energy. The focus of this meeting will be on topical issues of the European Union, including energy and climate issues, development trends of the economic situation and cooperation perspectives within the Baltic Sea region.

It is planned that the Latvian Prime Minister will meet TeliaSonera management in order to discuss Lattelecom’s privatisation, as well the management of Svenska Kraftnat, a state utility administering and running the Swedish high voltage electrical grid, in order to discuss the opportunities for constructing a link between Latvia and Sweden.

At the end of this visit the Prime Minister will meet journalists accredited for work in Sweden.