New publication "The HELCOM Jubilee Session-Presenting the Past, Present and the Future" now available online

A special Jubilee Session was held on March 4th, 2004 at the House of Estates to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki Convention. The presentations from the Jubilee Session are now available in an electronic publication “The HELCOM Jubilee Session-Presenting the Past, Present and the Future”.

The publication includes interesting speeches from important actors in the field of environment protection such as Ms.Tarja Halonen, President of Finland, Mr. Jan- Erik Enestam, Minister for the Environment of Finland, and Ms. Irina Osokina, the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation.

The publication also includes the “Youth for the Baltic” Resolution which was adopted March 1st at the University of Helsinki and for history lovers a detailed account of “how HELCOM was born” by Mr. Olli Ojala from the Ministry of the Environment of Finland.

Other speakers featured in the publication are the Chair of HELCOM, Ms. Inese Vaidere, Mr. Stephen Lintner, the World Bank, Mr. Peter Ehlers, German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, Mr. Lennart Gladh, The World Wildlife Fund and Mr. Patrick Murphy, European Commission.