Nordic cooperation, one of the oldest and most wide-ranging regional partnerships in the world, involves Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland. Co-operation reinforces the sense of Nordic community while respecting national differences and similarities, makes it possible to uphold Nordic interests in the world at large and promotes positive relations between neighbouring peoples.
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NORDIC COUNCIL and NORDIC COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
Co-operation was formalised in 1952 when the Nordic Council was set up as a forum for parliamentarians and governments. The Helsinki Treaty of 1962 has formed the framework for Nordic partnership ever since.
The Nordic Council of Ministers was set up in 1971 as the formal forum for co-operation between the governments of the Nordic countries and the political leadership of the autonomous areas, i.e. the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland.
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As of January 2012, Norway takes over the rotating presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers:
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The welfare state in a Nordic perspective is the main theme of the Programme for the Norwegian Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers 2012. The Presidency will address the various challenges faced by the Nordic welfare states, and how we can meet them by looking at the structure of the welfare state and identifying ways in which the public sector can operate more efficiently. This will also include looking at co-operation between the public sector and both sides of the labour market, as well as at broader co-operation with, e.g. voluntary sector organisations, in order to promote widely acceptable joint solutions to the challenges faced.
Programme for the Norwegian Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers 2011: The welfare state in a Nordic perspective
NORDIC COUNCIL OF MINISTERS' OFFICES
In 1989 it was decided to broaden this Nordic cooperation to the areas adjacent to the Nordic countries - in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and North West Russia. As a result, Information Offices were established in 1991 in the three Baltic capitals – in Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius. In 1995 an office was established in St.Petersburg. The Information Offices participated in the implementation of Nordic cooperation projects and programs in the three Baltic countries and North West Russia.
In 2006 an Office of the Nordic Council of Ministers' was opened also in Kaliningrad.
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Nordic Council of Ministers' Office in Estonia
Lai 29, 10133 Tallinn, Estonia
ph +372 627 31 0; fax + 372 627 31 10
e-mail: info@norden.ee, www.norden.ee
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Information Office of the Nordic Council of Ministers
in St. Petersburg
Malaya Konjushennaya street 1/3A, office B34,
Business Centre "Sweden House", RUS-191186,
St. Petersburg, Russia
ph +7 812 336 7580; fax: +7 812 336 7581
e-mail: info@norden.ru, www.norden.ru
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Nordic Council of Ministers' Office in Lithuania
Didžioji 5, 01128 Vilnius, Lithuania
ph +370 5 212 22 11; fax +370 5 212 24 23
e-mail: info@norden.lt, www.norden.lt
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Nordic Council of Ministers' Office
in Kaliningrad
Chiernakovskogo 6, Office 116
236000 Kaliningrad, Russia
ph +7 (4012) 72 81 72; fax +7 (4012) 72 81 73
e-mail: info@norden39.ru, www.norden39.ru
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Nordic Council of Ministers' Office in Latvia
Marijas 13/3 (Berga Bazars)
Riga, LV 1666, Latvia
ph +371 67820089; fax: +371 7213233
e-mail: info@norden.lv, www.norden.lv
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