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 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.

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.

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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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.

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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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).

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.

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.

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.

It is a pity that the Russian leadership of today has chosen not to condemn the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact that damaged the development of the whole Baltic Sea region for so many years and still is a source of political pollution threatening to poison relations between neighbors around the Baltic Sea. I find it difficult to accept those who tend to describe the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact as only a measure to build up Soviet national security.

The Task Force5 was established based on a decision made at the 1st Baltic Sea States Summit in Sweden in 1996 due to an urgent need for direct and concerted action to combat organised crime .

(a) Seminar Maritime safety current problems of use of the Baltic Sea , 22 and 23 April 2004, organized by the Governments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Schleswig Holstein and Mecklenburg Western Pomerania