The campaign in Nordic and Baltic countries

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E.g. ethnic Russians in the Baltic States.

Mr. Marek Tiits, Institute of Baltic Studies, Estonia

But bad news is emerging from the smaller countries as well, including the Baltic states. Across Central and Eastern Europe, the scene is almost universally depressing.

In 2002 2003 a campaign against trafficking in women in the Nordic and Baltic countries was organised on the initiative of the Nordic Council of Ministers.

There were also joint seminars in the three Baltic capitals, open to government agencies, researchers, police, immigration authorities, NGOs, the media and the public from all eight countries involved.

UNICEF promoted the Initiative in 50 countries, but expansion was really only evident in the Central and Eastern Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States and Baltic States region (CEE CIS).

When Lithuania and then the other Baltic States Estonia and Latvia which were occupied by Stalin early in WWII, seized their opportunity for freedom in 1990 91, the Kremlin did not sit on its hands. It knew that the rest of Russia s colonies the so called Soviet republics would want to follow the ungrateful Baltic countries into freedom.

We plan to conduct an international sea exercise in the Baltic in 2006.

The Nordic Baltic Task Force against Trafficking in Human Beings has been formed.

Estonia had also hosted the third Baltic Sea Women's Conference Women and Democracy .

People came from the Baltic countries in the 1940s, Hungary in 1956, Chile after the 1973 coup, and Iran after the 1979 revolution. For decades, Swedish industry was dependent on immigrant workers.

b Pacific, Caribbean and CEE CIS Baltic States multi country programmes were counted as one each except countries in emergency situations within the multi country programme with separate expenditure and available indicators.

The campaign began in 2002 with a joint three day seminar of the Nordic and Baltic countries Trafficking in Women the Modern Slave Trade , which dealt with different aspects of the issue.

Judgment of opinion leaders in Baltic countries and North West Russia was launched, which was coordinated in cooperation with the Estonian Women's Studies and Resource Centre and the Ministry of Social Affairs.

The campaign against trafficking in women in the Baltic and Nordic countries and other measures helped to launch a debate in spring 2004 about the criminalization of the purchasing of sexual services.

(d) The Baltic Environment Forum (one workshop for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)).

The example posed by the Baltic nations does not threaten the Kremlin much, because they are perceived as foreign to the Russian psyche. Indeed, in Soviet films, Baltic actors were usually cast in the roles of Nazi generals and American spies.

Estonia actively participates in the fight against trafficking in human beings in the Nordic and Baltic region.

Poland s GDP has almost doubled over the last 20 years, while Ukraine is still barely maintaining the output level recorded during the last year of socialism. Generally speaking, Central and Eastern European countries have performed better economically than the ex Soviet countries (with the exception of the Baltic states).

This is why almost all Lithuanians indeed, most residents of the Baltic countries feel queasy at the prospect of their leaders marking this anniversary in Moscow. But Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians are not the only Europeans who should feel this way.

Moldova s reemergence from authoritarian rule after eight years is the result of elections and parliamentary procedures. This makes Moldova the only post Soviet state (aside from the Baltic countries) with an uninterrupted cycle of transfers of power through elections since 1991.

The results of the analysis were published in the book Trafficking in women and prostitution in the Baltic states .

Central and Eastern Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic States (E ICEF 2005 P L.28)

E.g. initiatives of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe High Commissioner on National Minorities in the Baltic States.

Baltic IT T Conference, presentation Trends of development of IT T legislation in Latvia http www.dtmedia.lv bitt conference papers Uldis_Kinis.html

Baltic judges Association Conference Report Court and information transparency (comparative analysis in context of the European legislation. ) www.ltb.1v konference

In that context, her Government strongly supported the activities of the Nordic Baltic Task Force against Trafficking in Human Beings.

The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia and parts of Poland share a common legacy of Mitteleuropa , formed during the Hapsburg Empire. Moreover, communism in those states was different than that practiced in the three Baltic countries, which were part of the Soviet Union.

As its economic and geopolitical influence has waned, so has its willingness to consider renouncing its nuclear status. Indeed, not only has it revived the Cold War era tactic of sending military aircraft unannounced into airspace over the Baltic countries and the North Sea it has also made veiled nuclear threats against countries like Denmark.

87. Notes with appreciation the adoption of the Baltic Sea Action Plan, in Krakow, Poland, on 15 November 2007, by the Member States of the Helsinki Commission, the aim of which is to drastically reduce pollution in the Baltic Sea and restore it to a good ecological status by 2021

U. Kinis Censorship and the Internet The Views of an Attorney , Baltic IT T review No. 11 1999., p. 66 75.

Poland may find that it has security and other interests in common with some states of a similar size in the current EU. The three Baltic states will most likely cooperate much more closely with the Scandinavian countries than with the other new members.

The end of the war resulted in the occupation and the renewed annexation of the three Baltic States by the Soviet Union.

Cooperation on combating violence against women in the Nordic Baltic region had been intensive and fruitful, spawning numerous projects on various topics.

Mr. Šerkšnys (Lithuania) I have the honour to speak on behalf of the three Baltic States Estonia, Latvia and my own country, Lithuania.

The Second meeting of Nordic and Baltic ministers of Justice, presentation Through transparency to an information society http meetinp.just.ee topic2_3.php?menyy t2

Regional initiatives were reported by Iceland (the Nordic Baltic Campaign against Trafficking in Women) and Namibia (the Southern African Regional Police Chiefs Cooperation Organization).

Problems of actual or potential statelessness arose in the Baltic States following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and following the dissolution of Czechoslovakia.

These conclusions were subsequently confirmed by the Conference of Baltic Sea States' Ministers responsible for Police Co operation held in Germany in May 2002.

In May, the world will mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. But instead of happily preparing for that occasion, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania which scarcely 15 years ago regained the independence they lost in WWII are uneasy.

WARSAW It was two decades ago this summer that communist rule began to implode from Tallinn in the Baltic to Tirana in the Adriatic, ushering in free elections, market reforms, and expanded civil liberties. Since then, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe have come a long way.

Thus, as the Kremlin dreams of re establishing its domination over what Russians refer to as the near abroad (Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic countries, and the other post Soviet states), China is increasingly looking at Russia as its own near abroad. Will the Kremlin finally wake up to this?

The Parties to the Helsinki Convention adopted guidelines for sustainable and environmentally friendly tourism in the coastal zones of the Baltic Sea Area in 2000.