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OPEN LETTER
TO THE COUNCIL OF BALTIC SEA STATES, THE FOREIGN MINISTERS AND THE MINISTERS OF CULTURE IN THE BALTIC SEA REGION
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From the First International Meeting of the Creative forces
The Baltic Meetings
June 17-20, 2005
The First International "Baltic Meetings", a meeting of the Creative forces of the Baltic Sea Countries, was organized by the Kaliningrad City Administration together with the Baltic Writers? Council with the support of the Nordic Culture Fund in Copenhagen, the Swedish Institute Stockholm, the Consulate General of Sweden in Kaliningrad and the German Foreign Department in Berlin. The Meeting was held in the framework of the celebrations devoted to the 750th Anniversary of the foundation of Königsberg on June 17-20, 2005, in Kaliningrad, Russia.
More than 100 persons ? writers, poets, artists, museum staff, historians, and other outstanding representatives of culture from 12 countries of the Baltic Sea Region ? took part in the Meeting. The program of the Meeting included workshops and discussions, literary readings and discussions of project ideas.
The participants of the Meeting acknowledge the significant importance of the "Baltic Meetings" in strengthening and broadening the contacts among the creative forces of the Baltic Sea countries, in increasing the creative potential, broadening cooperation and exchange in the field of culture and common cultural heritage.
The participants of the forum apply to the organizers of the event and the parties concerned with the following initiatives:
1. To hold a 3-day forum, the "Baltic Meetings", open to all interested parties, in the member states by rotation on an annual basis by providing the Ministries of culture, international funds and the public of the corresponding countries with the necessary information; Baltic Centre of Writers and translators, Visby (Gotland, Sweden) should be the centre of the activities coordination in 2006;
2. To make a joint application to the Ministries of culture and foreign affairs of the governments of the Baltic Sea countries with the request to simplify the visa regime and to cancel the visa fees for the participants of the cultural exchange and projects held under the auspices of the "Baltic Meetings", which will give us a possibility to implement the slogan of the forum ? Creating Together.
3. To support concrete projects put forward to strengthen the cultural ties of the Baltic Sea countries and to broaden exchange of experience in the field of preserving our cultural heritage.
4. As the first meeting of the Baltic Meetings is being held in connection of celebration of 750 years anniversary of Königsberg/Kaliningrad we refer to a list of urgent projects put forward by the Writers? Union of Kaliningrad (attached).
Kaliningrad
21 of June 2005
On behalf of all participants of the Baltic meetings conference (list att):
Klaus-Jurgen Liedtke,
chairman of the Baltic Writers? Council Visby, vice-president of the International
Committee of the Three Seas Writers? and Translators? Council Rhodes
Peter Curman,
chairman of KLYS, member of the International Committee of the Three
Seas Writers? and Translators? Council Rhodes,
Vyacheslav Karpenko, Kaliningrad Pen-center
Oleg Glushkin,
Kaliningrad branch of RF Writers and Translators? Union
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