Stock Photo - 01 June 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Wismar: Johanna Sumuvuori, State Secretary to the Foreign Minister of Finland (l-r), Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Foreign Minister of Denmark, Manuela Schwesig, Minister President of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Tobias Billström, Foreign Minister of Sweden, Annalena Baerbock (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Klara Geywitz, Federal Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Construction, and Thordis Kolbrun Reykfjörd Gylfadottir, Foreign Minister of Iceland before the Council of the Baltic Sea States meeting. 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, enhancing energy security through the expansion of renewable energies and the recovery of ammunition and ordnance remnants from the Baltic Sea. Photo: Jens Büttner/dpa. - Wismar/Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania/Germany