HELCOM wins Swedish Baltic Sea Water Award

Stockholm, 20 August (HELCOM Information Service) – HELCOM, the intergovernmental organisation for the protection of the Baltic marine environment, has won this year’s prestigious Swedish Baltic Sea Water Award. The announcement was made today by Sweden’s Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson at the annual World Water Week in Stockholm. The official award ceremony will take place on 17th of September in Stockholm at the EU Ministerial Conference on the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. 

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