10th Meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN Tallinn, October, 2006 _______________________________________________ Activities of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN, Danute Jane MARDOSIENE Chair of Baltic Division of UNGEGN

MEETINGS of the BALTIC DIVISION OF UNGEGN,

8th UN Conference on the Standartization of Geographical Names 27 August to 5 September 2002; 5th Meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN 2 September 2002 Berlin, Germany; Conference Exhibition Meeting New chair of Division Dr. Peeter Pall, Estonia Malle Hunt, Estonia Vita Strautniece, Latvia Dace Kavace, Latvia Aldona Burviene, Lithuania Danute Mardosiene, Lithuania Prof. Stasys Vaitekunas, Lithuania Владимир Богинский, Russia Владимир Жуковский, Russia Elvi Sepp, Estonia ObserverIzabella Krauze- Tomczyk, Poland

6th Meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN May, 2003 Kihnu, ESTONIA Experts of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia 12 Reports Excursion to Island

9th UN Conference on the Standartization of Geographical Names 27 August to 5 September th Meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN 27 April April 2004 New York, USA Building of United Nations 3 Estonia; 6 experts: 2 Latvia; 1 Lithuania

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Vita Strautniece, LV; Ieva Kage, LV, Dr. Peeter Pall, EE Elvi Sepp, EE; Malle Hunt EE; Danute Mardosiene, LT

Participants of Baltic Division with Ms. Helen Kerfoot, Chair of UNGEGN, 2004

8th Meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN 7–8 October, 2004 Vilnius, Lithuania Responsibilities: The Commission of Lithuanian Language; National Land Service under the Ministry Agriculture of Lithuania Office: Institute of Lituanian Language 40 experts: 3 of Estonia, 6 of Latvia; 31 of Lithuania; 23 Reports; Excursions: to Funds of Institute of Lithuanian Language; to Trakai

Estonia Latvia Lithuania Dr.Peeter Pall Institute of Estonian Language Dace Kavace, State Land Boar Jūrate Palionyte, Commission of Lithuanian Language Elvi Sepp Place Names Board of Estonia Ojars Buss Institute of Latvian Lamguage Aiste Pangonyte Commission of Lithuanian Language Ale Kask, Tallin municipalities Zane Cekula State Land Board Dr.hab.Vitalija Macijauskiene, Institute of Lithuanian Language Jurgis Kavacs, ILL Dr. Marija Razmukaite Institute of Lithuanian Language Otilija Kovalevska, State Land Boar Dr.Laimutis Bilkis Institute of Lithuanian Language Aija Kresse

Danute Mardosiene, National Land Service, LT Tomas Duksa, National Land Service, LT Antanas Lekstytis, National Forest Service, LT Rita Trakymiene, Science & Encyclopaedia Publishing Institute Regina Bugoreviciene, Vilnius University Vytautas Butkus, Society of Geographers of Lithuania ENTERPRISES: Orlandas Pupalaigis, Centre of Place Names Register, LT Janina Daračkaite, Institute of Land Management, LT Gintaras Rumšas, Aerial Geodesy institute Ltd., LT Asta Kairienė, Aerial Geodesy institute Ltd., LT Lina Korolkoviene, Aerial Geodesy institute Ltd., LT Algirdas Rutkauskas, Institute of Forestry Management, LT Migle Bernotaite, HNIT Baltic Geoinfoservisas, LT

9th Meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN 11–13 October, 2005 Jūrmala, Latvia Responsibilities: The State Land Service of Republic of Latvia 66 experts of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, and observers of Belarussia, Poland and Ukraina ; 20 Reports; Changing Vicechair; Excursion to Venspils.

23rd Session of UNGEGN - 28 March to 4 April 2006 Meeting of Baltic Division of UNGEGN- 30 March 2006 Vienna, Austria UNO City Vienna International Centre 10 experts: 3 – Estonia; 3- Latvia; 2 – Lithuania 2 - Russia

10th Meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN 12–13 October 2006 Tallinn, Estonia

INFORMATION BULLETIN OF UNGEGN Last Number 32, September 2006 Information Dr.Peeter Pall about WG on Romanization Systems and 10 TH meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN- 20 th page.

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OTHER MEETINGS

Meetings of Working Groups of UNGEGN Toponymic Data files and Gazetteers WG Romanization WG Vita Strautniece, LV Dr. Peeter Pall, EE

Meeting of Dutch and German speaking division of UNGEGN, 2005 NETHERLANDVita Strautniece, LV

Meeting of Eastern Europe, Northen and Central Asia of UNGEGN 30 May – 03 June, 2005 Kiev, Ukraina Dr. Peeter Pall, EE Dace Kavace, LV Zane Cekula, LV Danute Mardosiene, LT

Meeting of East Europe, Nord and Middle Asia of UNGEGN September, 2006 LVOV, UKRAINA Dr.Peeter Pall

International Training course in Toponymy, 2006 Date: March 2006 Location: Vienna Participants: 11 from 7 Coutries (Southeast European, Central Asia) Organizations: The Austrian Names Board on Geographical Names; Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying; The Dutch and German Speaking Division of UNGEGN. Lecturer Dr.Peeter Pall, EE

AT AN EARLY DATE (FUTURE)

1st Workshop of Reference Group of EuroGeoNames (EGN) Project October, 2006 Frankfurt, Germany Vita Strautniece, LV Danute Mardosiene, LT

9th UN conference on the Standartization of Geographical Names (Including 24 th Session of UNGEGN) August, 2007 NEW YORK, USA UN building

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