Doc. 9280
14 November 2001

Need for European support in ensuring a prosperous future for the Kaliningrad region.

Motion for a resolution

presented by Mrs Burbiene and others

This motion has not been discussed in the Assembly and commits only the members who have signed it

As Lithuania and Poland prepare for European Union membership, the economic and social difficulties of the Russian Region of Kaliningrad - situated between these two countries – are becoming acute. Geographically separated from the rest of Russia, the Kaliningrad enclave on the Baltic is facing serious economic and social handicaps, which in turn have led to precariously low living standards and to a much less important flow of inward investment than is the case for neighbouring countries and for Russia itself.

In this situation it is important that Council of Europe member states in general – and the European Union in particular – do their utmost to ensure the fullest possible economic and social integration between Kaliningrad and its immediate and nearby neighbours, in ways that will also serve to promote the economic and social development of the Baltic Sea region as a whole.

Signed (see overleaf)

Signed : ¹

Burbienė, Lithuania, SOC

Atkinson, United Kingdom, EDG

Barsony, Hungary, SOC

Bušić, Croatia, EPP/CD

Čekuolis, Lithuania, LDR

Etherington, United Kingdom, SOC

Frey, Switzerland, LDR

Gross, Switzerland, SOC

Iwinski, Poland, SOC

Jakić, Slovenia, LDR

Jansson, Finland, LDR

Kirilov, Bulgaria, SOC

Ojuland, Estonia, LDR

Rogozin, Russia, EDG

Štĕpová, Czech Republic, SOC

Wielowieyski, Poland, EPP/CD

Zapfl-Helbling, Switzerland, EPP/CD

¹        SOC: Socialist Group

      EPP/CD: Group of the European People’s Party

      EDG: European Democratic Group

      LDR : Liberal, Democratic and Reformers’ Group

      UEL: Group of the Unified European Left

      NR: not registered in a group