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From: Kadri Jauram Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2020 3:20 PM To: 'Uldis Zariņš' <[email protected]>; Daiva Parulskienė <[email protected]> Cc: Sarmīte Catlaka <[email protected]>; Laura Okdaldere <[email protected]>; Asta Trummel <[email protected]>; Rasa Balčikonytė <[email protected]>; Jurgis Giedrys <[email protected]>; Līga Buševica <[email protected]> Subject: RE: BA translations Importance: High Dear Daiva, Thank you for you info! It was as you were reading our minds. Today, a decision was taken in Estonia on the government level to cancel all visits until the end of April and to limit the public events. And I was about to write about it and propose postponing the conference. Do you need an official replay letter from us as well or would this e-mail be sufficient? Best regards and take care! Kadri From: Uldis Zariņš <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2020 2:57 PM To: Daiva Parulskienė <[email protected]>; Kadri Jauram <[email protected]> Cc: Sarmīte Catlaka <[email protected]>; Laura Okdaldere <[email protected]>; Asta Trummel <[email protected]>; Rasa Balčikonytė <[email protected]>; Jurgis Giedrys <[email protected]>; Līga Buševica <[email protected]> Subject: RE: BA translations Dear Daiva, Thank you for your note! We undertand the reasons for this decision perfectly well, as we are indeed in the same boat – we expect a decision on public events to be taken today on the level of Cabinet of Ministers. We certainly share your hope that the situation will normalize soon, and that we will be able to proceed with signing of the aggreement. All the best, Uldis From: Daiva Parulskienė [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2020 2:48 PM To: Kadri Jauram; Uldis Zariņš Cc: Sarmīte Catlaka; Laura Okdaldere; Asta Trummel; Rasa Balčikonytė; Jurgis Giedrys; Līga Buševica Subject: RE: BA translations Dear colleagues and friends, Sadly today was decided to postpone the conference and visit of the ministers reacting to the quickly developing situation with corona virus. Let's hope for the normalization of the situation soon. Many thanks for all you comments and input preparing the memorandum, we will finalize it to be ready for signing. All good wishes, be safe, Daiva Sent from my Windows Phone From: Kadri Jauram Sent: 11/03/2020 12:18 To: Daiva Parulskienė; Uldis Zariņš Cc: Sarmīte Catlaka; Laura Okdaldere; Asta Trummel; Rasa Balčikonytė; Jurgis Giedrys; Līga Buševica Subject: RE: BA translations Dear all, We had a look at the draft and it is okay for us. Let’s go ahead ! Best regards Kadri Kadri Jauram Head of Foreign Relations Department Estonian Ministry of Culture Phone: 628 2323 [email protected] www.kultuuriministeerium.ee | Suur-Karja 23, 15076 Tallinn From: Daiva Parulskienė <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2020 3:03 PM To: Uldis Zariņš <[email protected]>; Kadri Jauram <[email protected]> Cc: Sarmīte Catlaka <[email protected]>; Laura Okdaldere <[email protected]>; Asta Trummel <[email protected]>; Rasa Balčikonytė <[email protected]>; Jurgis Giedrys <[email protected]>; Līga Buševica <[email protected]> Subject: RE: BA translations Dear colleagues, Sending you next draft of the document, which hopefully could give us some space to move forward. Please have a look and come back with your comments as soon as you have them. With best wishes, Daiva ------------------------- Daiva Parulskienė Profesionaliosios kūrybos ir tarptautiškumo politikos grupės vyr. patarėja Lietuvos Respublikos kultūros ministerija J. Basanavičiaus g. 5 Vilnius LT-01118 Tel. +370 608 43 751 │ [email protected] │ www.lrkm.lt From: Uldis Zariņš <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 3:10 PM To: Daiva Parulskienė <[email protected]>; Kadri Jauram <[email protected]> Cc: Sarmīte Catlaka <[email protected]>; Laura Okdaldere <[email protected]>; Asta Trummel <[email protected]>; Rasa Balčikonytė <[email protected]>; Jurgis Giedrys <[email protected]>; Līga Buševica <[email protected]> Subject: RE: BA translations Dear Daiva, Sorry for the delay – since our legal department pointed out that there is no way we can sign a binding aggreement in which we promies to provide funding to a particular organisation (we can do this only through an open tender), we had to figure out how to change the wording in a way which would express an intention to partner with Writers Unions while at the same not giving a firm promise to do so. This however also means that in our opinion Writers Unions cannot be co-signers of the Memorandum (may be we can suggest them to sign their own separate agreement simultaneously?) Please have a look at the proposed changes. There are also some more minor edits, for example Program->Initiative; also my colleagues instisted to call Parties – Participants, a suggestion not included in this draft but which you could consider. With best regards, Uldis From: Daiva Parulskienė [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 02, 2020 9:28 AM To: Kadri Jauram; Uldis Zariņš Cc: Sarmīte Catlaka; Laura Okdaldere; Asta Trummel; Rasa Balčikonytė; Jurgis Giedrys Subject: RE: BA translations Dear colleagues, Hope your are well. We would appreciate your response regarding draft Memorandum, we would need to get your comments and suggestions this week. Many thanks, Daiva ------------------------- Daiva Parulskienė Profesionaliosios kūrybos ir tarptautiškumo politikos grupės vyr. patarėja Lietuvos Respublikos kultūros ministerija J. Basanavičiaus g. 5 Vilnius LT-01118 Tel. +370 608 43 751 │ [email protected] │ www.lrkm.lt From: Daiva Parulskienė Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 4:24 PM To: 'Kadri Jauram' <[email protected]>; Uldis Zariņš <[email protected]> Cc: Sarmīte Catlaka <[email protected]>; Laura Okdaldere <[email protected]>; Asta Trummel <[email protected]>; Rasa Balčikonytė <[email protected]>; Jurgis Giedrys <[email protected]> Subject: RE: BA translations Dear All, Many thanks for the draft text of the Memorandum, please have a look to the draft text we prepared on the basis of Estonian proposal. The Memorandum would be signed by the ministers and co-signed by the Writers’ Union, as main implementers of the programme. In our case the memorandum will have to be coordinated with several other line ministries, so we would need to leave some time for circulating the document before signing it. We would appreciate your reaction within few weeks. Many thanks, Daiva ------------------------- Daiva Parulskienė Profesionaliosios kūrybos ir tarptautiškumo politikos grupės vyr. patarėja Lietuvos Respublikos kultūros ministerija J. Basanavičiaus g. 5 Vilnius LT-01118 Tel. +370 608 43 751 │ [email protected] │ www.lrkm.lt From: Kadri Jauram <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 3, 2020 4:43 PM To: Uldis Zariņš <[email protected]>; Daiva Parulskienė <[email protected]> Cc: Sarmīte Catlaka <[email protected]>; Laura Okdaldere <[email protected]>; Asta Trummel <[email protected]> Subject: RE: BA translations Dear all, Just to inform you and thank you all that we got the first drafts from our Writer’s Union! We had a quick look at it and are a bit worried. In the draft the Writer’s Unions impose financial obligations on Ministries, but as to Estonian law it cannot done and this is also why the signatories cannot be Writer’s Unions. It could either be so that MOU is signed by ministers and then cosigned the Writer’s Unions or one MOU for Ministers and another between Writer’s Unions. In line with what was discussed in Paris in November we tried to draft another version of MOU, please have a look and let us know what you think. We sent it also to Estonian Writer’s Union. Best regards Kadri Kadri Jauram Head of Foreign Relations Department Estonian Ministry of Culture Phone: 628 2323 [email protected] www.kultuuriministeerium.ee | Suur-Karja 23, 15076 Tallinn From: Uldis Zariņš <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 2:42 PM To: Daiva Parulskienė <[email protected]>; Kadri Jauram <[email protected]> Cc: Sarmīte Catlaka <[email protected]>; Laura Okdaldere <[email protected]> Subject: RE: BA translations Thank you, very much appreciated! And see you tomorrow (or on Friday)! Uldis From: Daiva Parulskienė [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 2:15 PM To: Uldis Zariņš; [email protected] Cc: Sarmīte Catlaka; Laura Okdaldere Subject: RE: BA translations Dear colleagues, I would like to share with you a very first draft proposal (basically initial ideas) of the memorandum and related project description, which should become integral part of the memorandum text. You possibly should get these drafts from your writers’ unions. We should discuss the ideas in the project description (such as time frame, I would suggest do not restrict it), number of books (1 or 2?) as well as other related issues. We will try on basis of this to help our union to develop short memorandum and circulate it among the unions and the ministries for further development. I would suggest on Friday just to inform the Baltic Assembly that we found the solution and are working on it and do not comment at the moment on any details. With best wishes, Daiva ------------------------- Daiva Parulskienė Profesionaliosios kūrybos ir tarptautiškumo politikos grupės vyr. patarėja Lietuvos Respublikos kultūros ministerija J. Basanavičiaus g. 5 Vilnius LT-01118 Tel. +370 608 43 751 │ [email protected] │ www.lrkm.lt From: Daiva Parulskienė Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 2:38 PM To: 'Uldis Zariņš' <[email protected]>; [email protected] Cc: Sarmīte Catlaka <[email protected]>; Laura Okdaldere <[email protected]> Subject: RE: BA translations Dear Uldis, Many thanks for your message and the minutes of the meeting between the writers unions. As you know me and our adviser on literature Rasa Balčikonytė will be attending Baltic Assembly meeting on the Baltic Literary Prize. Please find attached updated programme, the question is formulated as follows: „to provide funding for translation and publishing of works of the Baltic Assembly Prize winners for literature and stipulate it as a predefined project of the Baltic Culture Fund”. Regarding Baltic Culture Fund we once again would state that: 1) the funds provides grants on competitive basis, and predefined projects are not part of the agreement and are not possible in the Cultural Endowments of the Baltic States; 2) the fund provides grants for the new and non-recurrent events; 3) the fund provides grants first and foremost outside three Baltic States. There is no possibility to fund Baltic Assembly literary prize winners through the Baltic Culture Fund. Regarding the outline of our proposal as we understand it (and there is a difference in our understanding): 1) the Writers Union prepare a memorandum among themselves on the cooperation to ensure the translation and publication of awarded works (initiative comes from the unions); 2) the Ministries co-sign this agreement (agreed in Paris), thus ensuring that they will fund this initiative through their Writers’ Union; 3) signing of the memorandum is planned on the 2nd of April, during the Conference in Vilnius; 4) start of the implementation of the scheme is 2021. Our writers’ union should send the draft of the memorandum on 27th of January, we will share this draft with you for information and further development. With best wishes, Daiva ------------------------- Daiva Parulskienė Profesionaliosios kūrybos ir tarptautiškumo politikos grupės vyr. patarėja Lietuvos Respublikos kultūros ministerija J. Basanavičiaus g. 5 Vilnius LT-01118 Tel. +370 608 43 751 │ [email protected] │ www.lrkm.lt From: Uldis Zariņš <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2020 2:25 PM To: [email protected]; Daiva Parulskienė <[email protected]> Cc: Sarmīte Catlaka <[email protected]>; Laura Okdaldere <[email protected]> Subject: BA translations Dear colleagues, First of all, I think it is still not too late to wish you an excellent year 2020! Now to the point – as you know, our ministers agreed to sign an MoU on translation of BA prize winning works in April in Vilnius. Meanwhile I have also met in December with representatives of Writers’ Unions of the Baltic States, and discussed the MoU and its implentation (see attached minutes). From discussion I understood that the Lithuanian Writers Union had already spoken with Lithuanian Ministry of Culture, and discussed this arrangement, aggreeing that the draft text of the MoU will be initially written by Writers’ Unions, and then submitted for finetuning to the ministry/ies. Is it indeed true? Finally, on January 31 I will have to go to Vilnius once again (I suppose you are invited too) for the meeting of BA Culture committee, to comment on the implementation of the BA recommendation – to ensure translation and publication of BA Prize award-winning works/to recognize it as a programme to be funded by the BCF. Not sure who is supposed to be report on this, but I believe it would be excellent if we could give the BA a bit more detail on the progress. Can any of you provide any update on progress? Have Writer’s Unions approached any of you with a draft already? If not, should we proactively assist them in drafting to make sure the MoU is correct in all regards and makes sense? And what do you think of correct signing procedure – ministers only or also the Writers’ Unions? With best regards, Uldis Zarins Deputy State Secretary for Cultural Policy E-mail: [email protected] Tel. (+371) 67330255 Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia K.Valdemara street 11a, Riga, LV-1364, Latvia Web: www.km.gov.lv E-mail: [email protected]