Council of the Baltic Sea States

The Gotland Basin is the large central basin in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and the Baltic countries.

Within the next few months, Ms. Hampson hopes to organize a meeting with members of the Commonwealth Secretariat, as indicated in paragraph 34.

Two of the three Baltic countries and Greece are in deep financial distress.

The three Baltic states, Hungary, and non EU Iceland are bankrupt.

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

After World War II, as part of the goal to more fully integrate Baltic countries into the Soviet Union, mass deportations were conducted in the Baltic countries and the policy of encouraging Soviet immigration to the Baltic states continued.

Generally speaking, Central and Eastern European countries have performed better economically than the ex Soviet countries (with the exception of the Baltic states).

The Baltic states and most of the Central and East European countries (except Poland) adopted collective farming after World War II, with the accession of communist regimes to power.

The Baltics simply had to adjust to a sudden stop in external financing.

Lithuania ( ), officially the Republic of Lithuania (), is a country in Northern Europe, one of the three Baltic states.

To that end, she hopes to organize a meeting with interested persons during the twenty third session of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations and, if necessary, during the fifty sixth session of the Sub Commission.

Indeed, in Soviet films, Baltic actors were usually cast in the roles of Nazi generals and American spies.

In parallel with the Scandinavian crisis, communism collapsed in Eastern Europe in 1989 and in 1991 in the Baltic states.

That sustained demand provided an important stabilizer for the domestic economy, which the Baltic states did not have.

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

Major rivers include the Daugava River, Lielupe, Gauja, Venta, and Salaca, the largest spawning ground for salmon in the eastern Baltics.

In August, Molotov told the Germans that, with the government change, they could close down their Baltic consulates by September 1.

The example posed by the Baltic nations does not threaten the Kremlin much, because they are perceived as foreign to the Russian psyche.

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.

Another one to two million people, known as the White émigrés, fled Russia many with General Wrangel, some through the Far East, others west into the newly independent Baltic countries.

For starters, Latvia, like the other Baltic states, was running an enormous current account deficit when the crisis started.

Any comparison of the Baltics with the Great Depression (or the United States today) is thus meaningless.

As competition intensified and production started moving to the Baltic States and Eastern Europe, Sweden s policy answer was to upgrade the skills of the work force.

The three Baltic countries Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania will be among the smallest members when they join the Union on May 1, 2004, their total of 6 million people representing just 1.5 of the then EU's population.

The three Baltic states will most likely cooperate much more closely with the Scandinavian countries than with the other new members.

This is true of the recent boom bust sequence in Spain, Ireland, the United States, the United Kingdom, Bulgaria, and the Baltics, among others.

Moreover, communism in those states was different than that practiced in the three Baltic countries, which were part of the Soviet Union.

A visitor to Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, now sees the same level of determination to join the West that existed a decade ago in the Baltic states.

Yes, there is still a real risk of hitting an iceberg, beginning perhaps with a default in the Baltics, with panic first spreading to Austria and some Nordic countries.

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).

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 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.

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.

Meanwhile, Western Europe did its utmost to integrate the Baltic states Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia while seeking to avoid conflict with Russia.

He is skillfully playing the anti America card across Europe while putting pressure on the Baltic states, a clear warning not to extend Nato any further.

It knew that the rest of Russia s colonies the so called Soviet republics would want to follow the ungrateful Baltic countries into freedom.

Some will say that Baltic and Southeast European countries were fortunate that responsible Swedish and Austrian banks, rather than their toxic US and British counterparts, had entered their markets.

The new state must guarantee that any minorities it drags along say, Russians in the Baltic states, or Serbs in Kosovo will be decently treated.

The European Parliament, the Council of Europe and the Baltic Sea States Conference have produced various recommendations in favor of the introduction of the right to vote and of eligibility to all foreign residents in local elections.

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.

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.

Mr. Marek Tiits, Institute of Baltic Studies, Estonia

The campaign in Nordic and Baltic countries

It connects the Bothnian Sea with the Baltic Sea proper.