Press release no 176

 

On 22 and 23 November Minister of Internal Affairs Kalle Laanet was in Tripoli in Libya to attend an African and European Union conference focusing on migration and development issues. A joint declaration was adopted at the event regarding both matters. The declaration incorporates specific practical activities and reflects the views of both continents. An action plan for the battle against human trafficking was also approved in principle at the conference.

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Press release no. 175

 

According to the data of the Population Facts Department of the Ministry of the Interior, 1279 births were registered in October by the vital statistics offices of Estonia; 671 were boys and 608 were girls. 28 pairs of twins were born in October (9 pairs of boys, 12 pairs of girls and 7 paternal twin pairs), as well as one instance of triplets (girls).

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Press release no. 173

On Thursday, November 16, Minister for Regional Affairs Jaan Õunapuu and Minister of Internal Affairs Kalle Laanet will sign an agreement of cooperation with Professor Jaak Aaviksoo, Rector of the University of Tartu. The goal of the agreement is to use the proficiency of the university when developing regional and internal security policies.

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Press release no. 171

The committee for the support of regional investment formed within the Ministry of Internal Affairs and led by minister Jaan Õunapuu has distributed funds totalling 15.1 million EEK (obtained through revenue from the gambling tax) to 54 projects in this year's second round of applications.

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Press release no. 170

Tomorrow, 3 November, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the place name board will be organising Place Name Day in Viljandi to discuss issues related to the organisation of place naming. The day has become an annual traditional and is being held for the fourth time.

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Press release no. 166

Today, 30 October, Regional Minister Jaan Õunapuu will be participating in the conference "Christian values in Estonian politics" with a presentation titled "The spirituality of the family as the basis of a nation's success."

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Press release no. 162

Tomorrow, 25 October, Regional Minister Jaan Õunapuu will be travelling to Lisbon to participate in the European Conference of Ministers responsible for Regional Planning (CEMAT).

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Press release No. 160

According to the data of the Population Facts Department of the Ministry of the Interior, 1237 births were registered in September by the vital statistics offices of Estonia; 657 of the babies were boys and 580 were girls. 23 pairs of twins were born in September (13 pairs of boys, 6 pairs of girls and 4 paternal twin pairs).

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Press release no159

Tomorrow, on 13 October, the Minister for Regional Affairs, Jaan Õunapuu, will visit the islands of Aegna, Prangli and Naissaar to discuss with the heads of local government the social and economic development of the islands and problems in connection with life on the islands. Issues as regards cooperation between the state and local government will also be on the agenda.

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Press release no. 157

From 9 to 13 October place name experts from the United Nations will be meeting in Tallinn, led by the Ministry of the Interior and the Institute of the Estonian Language, to discuss the coordination of place names in international use.

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Press release no. 156

Today, 5 October, the Pandora 2006 national crisis regulation complex training event reached a meeting of the cabinet of the Government of the Republic.

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Press release no. 155

On Thursday and Friday 5 & 6 October Interior Minister Kalle Laanet will be in Luxembourg at the session of the European Union Justice and Home Affairs Council to discuss topics related to the launch of the Schengen information system.

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Press release nr 154

From midnight today, 4 October, until the end of the month controls on Estonia's borders will be heightened to reduce the potential for security risks during the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to the country.

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Press release no. 153

The Pandora 2006 crisis regulation complex exercises organised by the Ministry of the Interior commenced on Monday 2 October in the Tallinn Prison, where the emergency situation resolution plan of the Ministry of Justice was put to the test along with the actions and reactions of the prison's crisis team and medical personnel in critical situations.

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Press release no. 151

The Pandora 2006 crisis regulation complex exercises organised by the Ministry of the Interior are set to begin this Monday 2 October in the Tallinn Prison, where the emergency situation resolution plan of the Ministry of Justice will be put to the test as well as the actions and reactions of the prison's crisis team and medical personnel in critical situations.

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Press release no. 148

Tomorrow, 28 September, the Ministry of the Interior will sign a procurement contract with EADS Secure Networks Oy for the development, delivery and installation of an operative radio communications (ORC) system.

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Press release no. 147

Minister for Regional Affairs and head of the inter-ministerial committee of the Government of the Republic Jaan Õunapuu, heads of the Local Government Associations Cooperation Assembly delegation, Chairman of the Association of Estonian Cities Margus Lepik and Chairman of the Association of Municipalities of Estonia Kurmet Müürsepp have today signed the final protocol of negotiations on the budgets for local governments for 2007.

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Press release no. 144

Today, 21 September, the Government of the Republic granted the Ministry of the Interior permission to enter into a procurement contract with EADS Secure Networks Oy for the development, delivery and installation of an operative radio communications (ORC) system. The cost of the procurement contract is almost 183 million Estonian kroons.

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Press release no. 145

According to the data of the Population Facts Department of the Ministry of the Interior, 1345 births were registered in August by the vital statistics offices of Estonia; 696 were boys and 649 were girls. 25 pairs of twins were registered in August (16 pairs of boys, 5 pairs of girls and 4 paternal twin pairs).

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Press release no. 142

Tomorrow, 20 September, the Ministry of the Interior will be organising a festive ceremony in the Paide Cultural Centre to mark the 80th anniversary of the foundation of the posts of the Vital Statistics Office.

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Press release no. 141

Interior Minister Kalle Laanet is to be sworn is as the president of the European department of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Academy at its next in-service training conference.

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Press release no. 139

As a result of the budget negotiations that have taken place today, September 13, between the inter-ministerial committee of the Government of the Republic and the Local Government Associations Cooperation Assembly, the parties have failed to reach a consensus regarding budgets for local governments for the year 2007. The negotiations will continue on September 26.

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Press release no. 137

On Thursday 7 September an extraordinary working group meeting called by the Council of Ministers of the European Union discussed a revised schedule for completion of the second generation Schengen information system SIS II. According to this schedule, the systems of new member states would be ready for integration not by the end of 2006 as originally planned, but by June 2008. Estonia would therefore join the Schengen zone by October 2008 at the earliest.

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Press release no. 135

On Thursday 7 September the Ministry of the Interior and the Border Guard Administration will be taking possession of two solid-based rubber-buoyed boats, obtained with the aid of Schengen Facility funds, which will play a role in securing the external borders of the Schengen visa space.

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Press release no. 133

This morning, 31 August, Interior Minister Kalle Laanet discussed the creation of elementary hygiene conditions for truck drivers waiting to cross the border at Koidula with Põlva County Governor Urmas Klaas.

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Press release no. 125

Today, August 23, Regional Minister Jaan Õunapuu will participate in the Club Polis meeting held at the Faculty of Law of the University of Tartu to discuss with representatives of various scientific institutions and local government associations the bottlenecks and possible solutions to them as found in draft laws that will influence regional development and local government activities.

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Press release no. 124

On Wednesday, August 23, Interior Minister Kalle Laanet and Ralf Stegner, the Interior Minister of the Land of Schleswig-Holstein in the Federal Republic of Germany currently visiting Estonia, will conclude a police cooperation agreement.

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Press release no. 123

Today, August 22, Regional Minister Jaan Õunapuu and the accompanying officials of the Ministry of the Interior are on a working visit in Põlva County and Tartu County for the purpose of obtaining an overview of results of the projects financed by the European Regional Development Funds.

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Press release no. 119

Today, 17 August, the Estonian government approved a document setting out the principles of the country's fight against terrorism.

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Press release no. 117

Tomorrow, 18 August, Regional Minister Jaan Õunapuu will be giving a talk at the Abruka island development conference titled "Preserving the Institutions of Abruka" regarding the roll of small islands in Estonia's regional development.

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Press release no. 116

Tomorrow, 16 August, Regional Minister Jaan Õunapuu will be travelling to the island of Vormsi to discuss matters related to the island's development with local government leaders. 

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Press release no. 111

On Friday 4 August Interior Minister Kalle Laanet will be meeting his Latvian counterpart Dzintars Jaundžeikars in Valka to discuss the reinforcement of cross-border police cooperation to combat the potential dangers posed by the loss of controls on internal EU borders.

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Regional Minister Jaan Õunapuu: "The decision of the health insurance fund to close the regional customer service bureaus does not comply with clause 82 of the coalition agreement which requires that the services offered by the state in all Estonian counties must be made available to the local population as easily and closely to their place of residence as possible.

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