Organigrama Estructural Dirección General de Ornato
3.5.4.7.1.3 INSPECCIONES DEL OPERARIO
On the Way to NATO
Monitoring of the Openness of Polish Borders
Displaced Cultural Property
eign Affairs, and Marek Siwiec, one of the Ministers in the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland. In Lublin, they met Archbishop Józef ¯yciñs- ki, and visited a refugee centre. In Kiev, they attended a meeting with Anatolij Zlenko, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Ukraine’s Ombudsman Nina Kar- pacheva, and representatives of the opposition (i.a Julia Timoshenko and Boris Tarasyuk). The visit to a border crossing and walk along the green border were the high points of the tour. As a follow-up to the visit, the European press pub- lished a number of articles on Poland and Ukraine, and on relations between the two states in light of European Union enlargement.
This Project was organized in collaboration with the Renaissance Foundation of Kiev, Ji, an independent Lviv magazine, and the Ukrainian-Polish Forum of Kiev. In co-operation with NATO’s Press and Information Office, a workshop for young political scientists accompanied by experts from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Russia was organized (Warsaw–Brussels, April 22nd – 29th). Work- shops concerned matters of international security, North Atlantic Treaty Orga- nization’s co-operation with candidate countries (Lithuania, Latvia and Esto- nia), and the US-Russia and NATO-Russia relations in the context of the planned NATO enlargement. Visits to the NATO Headquarters in Brussels and to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Mons formed part of this workshop project.
The project of monitoring Poland’s eastern border was prepared jointly with the Helsinki Human Rights Foundation; non-governmental organizations en- gaging in international co-operation have been invited to partake. During the period of March through September, nearly 50 non-governmental organiza- tions from all over Poland participated in a questionnaire study involving guests from beyond our eastern border. From July until September, volunteers from the Kêtrzyn-based Forum of Local Initiatives, the Polish Scouting Union Regi- ment Command in Suwa³ki, the Youth Parliament Association of Przemyœl, and the Pro Academia Narolense Foundation held questionnaire studies at border crossings. In 2003, we will use all the data collected to draft a report on the openness of Polish borders – the future borders of an enlarged European Union. We began a series of meetings on cultural property moved to the territory of other states in the aftermath of war, occupation or a shift in national borders. At the outset, we organized a conference entitled Displaced Cultural Property. The West European Case vs. Problems of Central and East European Countries in the 20th Century (Warsaw, January 25th – 26th). Panelists invited to speak made an effort to present the above problems against the broader backdrop of na- tional attitudes to cultural heritage, and of the role of national identity in defining cultural heritage and changes to the field over the recent decades. The group of speakers included: Ewa Bieñkowska (culture historian, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyñski University, Warsaw), Mark Bogus³awski (lawyer, Institute of State and the Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Nawojka Cieœliñska– Lobkowicz (art historian), Hans-Martin Hinz (historian, President of the Ger- man – International Council of Museums [ICOM] Committee, Berlin), Zigman- tas Kiaupa (historian, Institute of Lithuanian History, Vilnius), Serhij Kot (historian, manager of the Centre for Studies on Problems of Cultural Proper- ty Return and Restitution, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine, Kiev), Wojciech Kowalski (lawyer, Ambassador ad personam at the Ministry of For- eign Affairs, Warsaw), Aleksandr W. Lipatov (Polish language specialist, Insti- tute of Slavic Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow), Krzysztof Pomian (philosopher, historian, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS, Paris), Stefan Turner (lawyer, Research Institute for International Cultur- al Property Protection, Saarbrücken).
The Gazeta Wyborcza daily assumed media patronage over the conference. The second meeting in Kazimierz Dolny (December 12th – 13th 2002) with Pol- ish archivists, librarians and museum custodians concerned cultural property lost to Poland following the war, and relations of Poland with East and West European states and the US in this area. Additionally, issues of private proper- ty and of displaced museum collections in Poland during and after World War International Program
Two were discussed. The speakers included: Zofia Bandurska (art historian, the National Museum, Wroc³aw), Lidia Karecka (art historian, the National Museum, Warsaw), Hanna £askarzewska (librarian, the National Library, War- saw), Andrzej Mê¿yñski (historian, the Library of the Sejm - Lower House of the Polish Parliament, Warsaw). The problems of displaced cultural property in the international context were addressed by Nawojka Cieœliñska-Lobkowicz, Forum for Displaced Cultural Property of the Art Historians’ Association, War- saw, and the recent Polish disputes of the issue were presented by Piotr Ko- siewski, Stefan Batory Foundation.
The Journalists’ Club project – targeting regional press journalists from Be- larus, Poland and Ukraine – comprises a series of study tours to the purpose of establishing a contact network and information exchange, thus raising the number of press articles on conditions prevalent in states of the region, and serving to overcome any existent prejudice and stereotypes.
The first study visit (May 20th – 24th, Warsaw, Lublin, Wojcieszków) for journal- ists from regional Belarus press was organized in collaboration with the Be- larus Regional Press Development Foundation. It offered journalists a glance at the Polish situation on the eve of Polish accession to the European Union, and at the potential consequences of the event for Belarus.
The second study visit (September 30th – October 4th, Warsaw), with Polish, Ukrai- nian and Belarus regional press journalists, concerned problems of political and employment migration in Central and Eastern Europe. Our guests attended meetings with experts and representatives of Polish authorities. They visited also an illegal job centre exchange, a deportation custody jail, a refugee centre, and a company offering legal employment to Ukrainians. On day one, journal- ists attended an international seminar entitled From Censorship to Free Market. The final day involved a summary of the visit, and the drafting of texts describ- ing the situation of immigrants in regions of the journalists’ origin.
We also received a group of Russian journalists (June 21st – 27th) representing St. Petersburg and Moscow newspapers (among others Kommersant, Trud, strana.ru), and media from Kaliningrad. The purpose of the visit was to present the Polish situation after more than ten years of change. The agenda involved meetings with representatives of politics (the Parliament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of National Defense), economy, and culture.
The visit was co-organized with the Institute for Eastern Studies.
The Towards Regional Partnership project aims at promoting co-operation be- tween organizations from neighboring regions: the Warmia and Mazurian province partnering with the Kaliningrad district. The final part of the project involves internships for 25 representatives of organizations from Kaliningrad, Chernyakhovsk and Baltijs, co-organised by the Elbl¹g Association to Support Non-Governmental Initiatives, and the Borussia Cultural Community (March- July, Elbl¹g, Olsztyn). As part of their internship, our foreign guests were ex- posed to the everyday work of their Polish colleagues, and drafted plans for future joint work.
Since the year 2000, we have been operating a scholarship program for young scientists from Belarus in the fields of economy, law, and sociology, enabling them to attend internships at Polish universities and research institutions. Each intern is obliged to write an article; top papers are rewarded and published. Internships are to help prepare the community of young Belarusian scientists for reform in their own country.
A number of institutions joined the program on the Polish side: the Institute of Legal Sciences (Warsaw and Wroc³aw), Jagiellonian University (Institute of Sociology), Warsaw University (Faculty of Microeconomics and Faculty of Political Econom- Journalists’ Club:
Belarus, Poland, Ukraine
Journalists from Russia
Kaliningrad District. Towards Regional Partnership
Polish Reforms. Internships for Young Academics from Belarus