We, the participants of the Third International Forum
for young politicians of the North-West of Russia and Nordic countriesYoung
politicians and representatives of the Republic of Karelia, Arkhangelsk,
Vologda, Leningrad, Murmansk, Novgorod and Pskov regions, the Nenets
Autonomous District, Saint-Petersburg, members of the Parliamentary
Association of the North-West of Russia, NGO “National Assembly
of Young Deputies”, members of the Nordic Council, the Nordic Youth
Council, members of Parliaments of Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden,
politicians and representatives of Oulu Region (Finland), Counties
of Troms and Finnmark (Norway)., met in Arkhangelsk, Russian
Federation, on the 22nd of March, 2011, in order to discuss issues of
co-operation, education and employment of young people in the North-West
of Russia and in Nordic countries,
referring to the resolutions of the First and
the Second International Forums for young politicians of the North-West
of Russia and Nordic countries, which were held in Murmansk (Russian
Federation) on the 27th of March, 2009 and in Kirkenes (Norway)
on the 23rd of March, 2010,
acknowledging and respecting international standards
in the sphere of youth politics,
focusing on the young generation’s continuity
in the development of the international education,
being aware of the reasonability of advancing fundamental
principles and mutual interests in the sphere of building-up principally
new youth generation,
and we appeal to the representatives of Russia and
Nordic countries to draw the attention to the resolution of problems
of the international youth cooperation in spheres of youth employment
and education.
draw the attention to the importance of ensuring the
possibility for young people to communicate, cooperate and share
experience and to the requirement of contributing to the implementation of
different programmes and projects, with the participation of students,
young scientists, journalists, ecologists, creative young people,
young entrepreneurs, politically active young people, along with
young people from risk-groups in regions of the North-West of Russia
and Nordic countries;
underline the existing need of accomplishing visa-free
regime for the elimination of obstacles, which complicate the further
development of cooperation between our countries and regions;
request parliamentarians of Russia and Nordic countries
to include into the agenda of mutual cooperation queries concerning
the youth politics, cooperation and measures required for increasing
the youth mobility.
underline the necessity of making improvements in
the sphere of organising effective youth politics, connected to
the development of the labour-market and to the improvement of modern
educational standards;
consider solving existing problems possible
by means of:
conducting the monitoring
of the youth labour-market;
creating the unified database of youth
projects;
contributing to the unification of scientific
and educational organisations of the North-West of Russia and Nordic
countries into one telecommunicational network;
creating the unified legal framework for
the purpose of the international youth cooperation;
assigning grants for pioneering and developing scientific
research projects.
Realizing and supporting the common aspiration for
creating max. convenient conditions in a sphere of effective youth
employment and improving the system of professional training and retraining
of young specialists; we are convinced in existing necessity to
improve the operation of employment service and the system of its
governmental financing.
We recognize that the North-West of Russia and the
Nordic countries have common challenges integrating young specialists
to the labour market. We recommend public authorities, universities
and business-communities to facilitate progress in order to provide
young specialists with job and/ or job training.
We emphasize the importance of creating conditions
for young entrepreneurs in order to develop business ideas.
We underline the importance of professional unions
in securing youth rights and the necessity of activating governmental
politics aimed at suppoting of trade unions and increasing their
role in the youth politics.
Considering the importance of such events as
the International Forum for young politicians of the North-West
of Russia and Nordic countries, underline the reasonability of its
further organisation and welcome with gratitude the invitation of the
Swedish Parliament to host the Fourth International Forum for young
politicians of the North-West of Russia and Nordic countries in 2012.
We would request from the Chairperson to transfer
this resolution to the «round table» session between Nordic and
Russian politics in Murmansk in April 27 – 30, 2011, and also to
other appropriate international meetings and forums.