Abstract
The second part of the discussions concerning the Ministerial Sessions of the Baltic Sea States deals with the meetings of ministers which were held between 1999 and 2005. The course of the sessions and the decisions made in Palanga (1999), Bergen (2000), Hamburg (2001), Svetlogorsk (2002), Pori (2003), and Szczecin (2005) were discussed. Attention was paid to political, economic, and cultural issues, as well as to the subject of safety brought up during the debate. The role that the Russian Federation tried to play during these sessions was stressed. The Russian side made attempts to exploit the sessions for the protection of the rights of Russian-speaking population in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, and to use the sessions as the convenient international stage for accusing those states of violating human rights. The measures taken by Russia were not successful. As it seems, that failure was mainly caused by the fact that the Russians themselves ran short of determination in their attempts at reaching the aforementioned goals.
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