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Baltic Sea Region Brief: Advancing Baltic Sea Region Cooperation.

A Selection of Speeches, Joint Statements, Communiqués, and Treaties (1998-1999)

Table of Contents:

• Foreword

1. U.S. Baltic Relations
   • Remarks by President Clinton at the Charter Ceremony
     President Bill Clinton, January 16, 1998

   • First Anniversary of the U.S.-Baltic Charter of Partnership
     U.S. State Department Spokesman James Rubin, January 14, 1999

   • Remarks at the Mucenieki Refugee Center
     Ambassador James Howard Holmes, February 12, 1999

   • Joint Statement
     Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, President Lennart Meri, President Guntis Ulmanis, President Valdas Adamkus, April 22, 1999

   • The United States and the Baltic States: A Partnership for the Next Century
     Ambassador Lyndon L. Olson Jr. March 13, 1999

   • Remarks at the Dinner in Honor of the Baltic Sea Region Investment Conference
     Ambassador Lyndon L. Olson Jr. June 8, 1999

   • Press Encounter with Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs Marc Grossman in Latvia
     Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs Marc Grossman, June 21, 1999

   • Remarks at the Baltic Commission Ceremony
     Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, July 16, 1999

2. U.S. Russian Relations
   • U.S., Nordic, Baltic Defense Ministers Agree on Continued Engagement with Russia
     Secretary William S. Cohen, Minister for Defense Jan-Erik Enestam, Minister for Defense Bjorn von Sydow, Minister for Defense Hans Haekkerup, Minister for Defense Jüri Luik, Minister for Defense Girts Kristovskis, Minister for Defense Stine Nevisdal, Minister for Defense Eldbjorg Lower, July 10, 1999

   • Relations with Russian Federation Enhanced, U.S.-Baltic Partnership Commission Communiqué
     Deputy Secretary of State Stobe Talbott, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Algirdas Saudargas, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Latvia Maris Riekstins, July 19, 1999

   • Joint Statement of the Co-chairmen of the U.S.-Russian Joint Commission of Economic and Technological Cooperation
     U.S. Vice President Al Gore, Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Sergey Stepashin, July 27, 1999

3. The New Transatlantic Agenda & The New Euroatlantic Relation
   • Remarks on U.S.-European Union Relations Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry
     Under Secretary of State for Economics Business and Agricultural Affairs Stuart Eizenstat, January 27, 1999

   • New Challenges for the Transatlantic Alliance: A U.S. Perspective
     U.S. Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council Ambassador Alexander Vershbow, March 17, 1999

   • European Security and Conflict Prevention: Four Challenges for the New Millennium
     Ambassador John C. Kornblum April 28, 1999

   • NATO and the Baltic States: Implications of Enlargement Policies
     Ambassador Alexander Vershbow, May 7, 1999

   • NATO and the European Security Architecture: An American View
     Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Marc Grossman May 20, 1999

   • The Trans-Atlantic Alliance on the Threshold of the 21st Century
     Ambassador Richard Swett, May 20, 1999

   • Address to the OSCE Reinforced Permanent Council, Vienna
     U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Ron Asmus, July 23, 1999

4. The Northern Europe Initiative
   • An American Perspective on Regional Integration
     Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, March 5, 1999

     Statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
     Ambassador Designate Barbara Griffiths, July 21, 1999

5. Appendix
   • Charter of Partnership Among the United States of America and the Republic of Estonia, Republic of Latvia, and Republic of Lithuania
     January 16, 1999

   • The Alliance's Strategic Concept
     April 23 and 24, 1999

   • The U.S.-Russia Joint Commission
     July 27, 1999

   • Baltic Action Plan
     1999

   • The Northern Europe Initiative
     1998