The Prime Minister of Estonia Mr. Andrus Ansip, the Prime Minister of Latvia Mr. Valdis Dombrovskis and the Prime Minister of Lithuania Mr. Algirdas Butkevicius met within the framwork of the Baltic Council of Ministers on 8 November 2013 in Riga, Latvia. The Prime Ministers discussed the key issues of regional and trilateral cooperation as well as EU agenda.

The Prime Ministers reviewed the progress achieved by the Baltic States implementing common regional projects in compliance with the priorities of the Latvian chairmanship in the Baltic Council in 2013.

The Prime Ministers (1) recognised the significance of the EUSBSR for the economic, social and territorial cohesion, in addressing common marine and environmental challenges, infrastructure deficiencies, in particular building the missing energy and transport infrastucture links; (2) invited the respective ministries to enhance political support in the implementation of the EUSBSR and to use its potential in the work of Baltic Council of Ministers; (3) encouraged the managing authorities to embed EUSBSR objectives into the programming documents of the 2014-2020 programming period in an coordinated way and introduce possibilities for transnational coopertaion is a macro-regional context.