Council of the Baltic Sea States

E.g. ethnic Russians in the Baltic States.

The campaign in Nordic and Baltic countries

Mr. Marek Tiits, Institute of Baltic Studies, Estonia

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 .

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

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.

The following delegations provided comments which are reflected in the annex Italy, Japan, Norway, Republic of Korea, Spain, the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), the Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO) and the International Group of Protection and Indemnity Clubs (P I Clubs).

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Initially, most nations exiting from Communism reached out, almost instinctively, to their immediate pre Communist period. The Baltic states revived their constitutions of the 1930 s, the Armenians and the Azeris revived their political parties of the late 1910 s, and Eastern Europe, with the exception of East Germany, which reunited with the Federal Republic, suddenly became once again Mitteleuropa.

In view of the suffering of the Baltic States, we have always felt a very special obligation to strongly support their inclusion in the Euro Atlantic community.

The body tasked with coordinating the efforts of the CBSS member countries3 in fighting organised crime is the Task Force on Organised Crime in the Baltic Sea Region4.

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(Republic of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and Republic of Uzbekistan)

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.

The Latin American Integration Association was established by the Treaty of Montevideo in 1980 and is made up of twelve member countries the United Mexican States, the Argentine Republic, the Republic of Bolivia, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Republic of Chile, the Republic of Colombia, the Republic of Cuba, the Republic of Ecuador, the Republic of Paraguay, the Republic of Peru, the Eastern Republic of Uruguay and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Working paper submitted by the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan

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).

The five Central Asian States, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan

U. Kinis Through Transparency to an information society, presentation submitted to the Second Meeting of Nordic and Baltic Ministers of Justice, 2 November 2001, Tallinn http meeting.just.ee topic2_3.php?menyy t2.

by the heads of State of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation

For the Republic of Armenia For the Kyrgyz Republic R. Kocharian K. Bakiev President of the Republic of Armenia Acting President of the Kyrgyz Republic

Its gas blackmail of Ukraine frightened the entire Continent, and its new Baltic pipeline to Germany has provoked howls of outrage from Poland and the Baltic states, which are angry at losing the economic and political dividends a land route gives them. They are also fearful that Russia will use the energy weapon against them in the future, once the new pipeline allows the Kremlin to do so without affecting Western Europe.