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January 2000 13-14 STOP-TB Initiative Steering Committee meeting,
Washington, DC.16 Finland Presidential Election, first round. 24 Deputy Secretary Talbott visits Estonia to deliver Frasure Memorial Lecture. 26-28 Sweden hosts International Forum on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research, in Stockholm, Sweden. February 2000 1-3 Secretary of Energy Richardson visit to Norway. 3 Secretary Richardson visit to Lithuania. 3-4 U.S.-sponsored NEI Regional Investors Conference on Baltic Energy Development. 4 Secretary Richardson visit to Estonia. 5 Secretary Richardson visit to Latvia. 6 Finland Presidential Election, second round. March 2000 1 Finland --New President takes office. 9-10 Second Baltic Sea Women's Conference, Helsinki, Finland 14-15 Barents Euro-Arctic Council Ministerial, Oulo, Finland. 22-24 Ministerial Conference on TB and Sustainable Development, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 27 Inauguration of NEI Center of Excellence for the Management of Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Riga, Latvia 30-31 Regional Conference of Central and East European Countries on Fighting Corruption, Bucharest, Romania April 2000 5-7 Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs Alan Larson visit to Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia for annual bilateral Economic and Business Working Group meetings. 9-11 (Postponed until
Fall 2000)Luebeck Conference: International Practice in Urban and Industrial Waterfront Reclamation 12-13 Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the member states of the Council of Baltic Sea States (CBSS), Kolding, Denmark. May 2000 3-4 Meeting of the regional HIV/AIDS initiative, Riga, Latvia 17-18 Nordic Conference on Kaliningrad, Copenhagen, Denmark 18-19 NEI Regional Prosecutors Seminar on Organized Crime, St. Petersburg, Russia. 19-22 Annual European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Meeting, Riga, Latvia 21-26 Advocacy Training for Women Activists, Washington, DC 21-24 NEI Police Seminar on Organized Crime in Northern Europe, Tallinn, Estonia 30 Information Technology Conference, Stockholm, Sweden June 2000 7 U.S.-Baltic Partnership Commission Meeting, Tallinn, Estonia. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott leads U.S. delegation. 9 Secretary of Defense Cohen meeting with Nordic and Baltic Defense Ministers (5+3+1 Defense Ministerial), Vilnius, Lithuania 18-20 Launch of the U.S.-Nordic-Baltic-Russian Business Mentoring Initiative for Women, Tallinn, Estonia 21-22 Council of Baltic Sea States (CBSS) Ministerial, Bergen, Norway. Germany takes over CBSS chair from Norway. 25-27 Community of Democracies Ministerial, Warsaw, Poland. September 2000 21-22 Conference "Values and Visions - Education in the New Millenium," Copenhagen, Denmark October 2000 4-5 International Forum on Holocaust-Era Looted Cultural Assets, Vilnius, Lithuania 8 Lithuanian national elections 12-13 Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting, Barrow, Alaska 19 Baltic Sea Regional Security Conference, Stockholm, Sweden December 2000 5 The Sixth International "Muenster" Conference of Ministers of Economy, Industry and Trade, Moscow, Russia January 2001 27 International Forum on Holocaust Education, Stockholm, Sweden March 2001 14-15 Barents Euro-Arctic Council Ministerial meeting, Murmansk, Russia June 2001 7 Council of Baltic Sea States (CBSS) Ministerial meeting, Hamburg, Germany [end of text]
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