On Thursday, the 26th of April, the Conference of the Association of Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) “The Global Baltics – Next 20 Years” was opened at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Ambassadors to the United States Marina Kaljurand (Estonia), Žygimantas Pavilionis (Lithuania), Andrejs Pildegovičs (Latvia) and senior security officials Benjamin Rhodes and Elizabeth Sherwood -Randall participated in the opening roundtable plenary session.For more information about the conference, please visit: http://depts.washington.edu/aabs/conferences.html