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

_______________________________________________ Activities of the Baltic Division

of UNGEGN, 2002-2006

Danute Jane MARDOSIENE

Chair of Baltic Division of UNGEGN http://www.nzt.Lt , email DanuteM@zum.Lt

MEETINGS of the BALTIC DIVISION OF UNGEGN,

2002-2006

8thUN 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

• 28-30 May, 2003• Kihnu , ESTONIA

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• Experts of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia

• 12 Reports

• Excursion to Island

9thUN Conference on the Standartization of

Geographical Names 27 August to 5 September 2004

7th Meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN27 April 2004

• 27 April 2004• New York, USA• Building of United Nations

• 3 Estonia;• 6 experts: • 2 Latvia; • 1 Lithuania

UN

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 ofLithuanian 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 BussInstitute of Latvian Lamguage

Aiste Pangonyte Commission of Lithuanian Language

Ale Kask, Tallin

municipalitiesZane 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 2006Meeting 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 10TH meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN- 20 th page.

Bulletin continue...

• UNGEGN Geographical Names Database

• Please help us build the initial base information on

capitals and cities/towns with over 100,000 population in your country. To do this, visit the UN Statistics website at:• http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/ sconcerns/densurb/urban.aspx UNGEGN

sekretariat

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

• NETHERLAND • Vita 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

• 25-29 September, 2006

LVOV, UKRAINA

• Dr.Peeter Pall

International Training course in Toponymy, 2006

Date: 16-27 March 2006Location: ViennaParticipants: 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

• 23-24 October, 2006 Frankfurt, Germany

• Vita Strautniece, LV

• Danute Mardosiene, LT

9th UN conference on the Standartization of Geographical

Names (Including 24th Session of UNGEGN)

20-31 August, 2007

NEW YORK, USA

UN building

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