The Baltic Assembly, positively
evaluating the existing Agreement of the Ministry of Culture and Education of the
Republic of Estonia, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia and the
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania on the Cooperation between the
Baltic States in the Field of Culture, recommends to the Baltic Council of Ministers
the following priorities of cultural cooperation:
1) efforts to preserve the
ethnic uniqueness of each country, jointly fostering and popularizing the traditions
of national culture;
2) creation of broad
opportunities for gaining knowledge of the cultural heritage of each country and
the contemporary cultural values in all spheres of professional and amateur
arts;
3) encouragement of the organization
of joint cultural and art events, exchange of artists and their groups;
4) cooperation in organizing
and holding international competitions, festivals, exhibitions and other
cultural events;
5) cooperation in the field
of protection of cultural monuments;
6) cooperation between libraries, museums, publishing houses, other cultural
institutions;
7) cooperation in the fields
of television, cinema, audio and video art;
8) exchange of information about cooperation with international organizations and other
countries;
9) cooperation concerning the return of cultural
items and objects, which have been illegally taken away from the Baltic States,
to their rightful owners or their rightful heirs;
10) cooperation in the field
of intellectual property, especially in the sphere of copyright and relations with appropriate
international organizations;
11) exchange of
information about legal acts passed by the
12) support of the cultural heritage of ethnic minorities (especially
of the indigenous minorities: setus, livs and karaites); and
13) efforts to develop cooperation
in the fields of sport, tourism, youth exchange programmes.