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MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND NATIONAL HERITAGE OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Agnieszka Grunwald Deputy Director Warszawa, 10 marca 2022 r. DWZ-WWD.0730.19.2022.AWH Mr Meelis Kompus External Relations Department Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Estonia Dear Sir, in response to Russia's unprecedented, unprovoked and unjustified military aggression against Ukraine many countries have started the process of reassessing and readjusting all activities with Russia. By its military actions, Russia is grossly violating international law and undermining European and global security and stability. Therefore, there cannot be any further consent to the cooperation with the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, neither at the governmental nor at the non-governmental level. Considering the above, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland has already suspended all kind of existing and planned projects and activities with the Russian partners. Taking into account that Poland and Estonia have been members of many international and regional cultural organisations such as Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture, which will soon need to prepare new strategies and work frame, I would like to kindly ask you about the official position on cooperation of Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Estonia and other Estonian entities with the Russian NGO’s and provide the information whether do you differentiate between the suspension of the cooperation with the NGO’s registered in Estonia by the Russian minority group and the cooperation with the Russian NGO’s registered in Russia. Agnieszka Grunwald Informacja dotycząca zasad przetwarzania danych osobowych przez Administratora oraz praw osób, których dane są przetwarzane została zamieszczona na stronie http://bip.mkidn.gov.pl w zakładce ochrona danych osobowych. ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 15/17, 00-071 Warszawa, tel.: 22 42 10 240, fax: 22 826 19 22, e-mail: [email protected]