Table of Contents

Roma Issues in Focus in Helsinki	1
Declaration of Support	2
Opening Remarks of the President of Finland	3
Participation in Decision Making: A Pan-European Representative body for Roma Ann-Marie Nyroos	5
International Cooperation of Roma Andrzej Mirga	9
Establishing a Roma/Gypsy Partnership at the European Level Nicolae Georghe & Jean-Pierre Liégeois	14
Proposals to the Election of Representatives to the European Roma Consultative Body Györny Wiener & Csaba Tabajdi	26
Current Aspects of the Situation of Roma in Europe Csaba Tabajdi	29
Geopolitics and Sociopolitics: New Prospects for the Rom Jean-Pierre Liégeois	38
Annex 1: The Programme of the Seminar
Annex 2: A List of Participants of the Seminar
Annex 3: Speech by the President of Finland Tarja Halonen (Strasbourg, 24 January, 2001)
Annex 4: Fragment of the Statement by the Minister of Justice of Finland Johannes Koskinen (Strasbourg, 11 May, 2001)
Annex 5: Conclusions from the Conference organised by the Romanian Chairmanship of the OSCE, Bucharest, 10-13 September 2001: Equal Opportunities for Roma and Sinti: Translating words into facts
Annex 6: Example, Strategy of the Government of Romania for Improving the Condition of the Roma