ESTONIA: Almost extinguished, successfully reborn
The following text is the shortest possible review to help inform friends and guests from abroad about Estonia’s experience with foreign occupation and totalitarianism as well as its road to peacefully re-establishing national inde-pendence on the basis of democracy. Tunne Kelam Member of the European Parlament
The following text is the shortest possible review to help inform
friends and guests from abroad about Estonia’s experience with
foreign occupation and totalitarianism as well as its road to
peacefully re-establishing national inde-pendence on the basis
of democracy.
Tunne Kelam
Member of the European Parlament
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<strong>ESTONIA</strong>:<br />
<strong>Almost</strong><br />
<strong>extinguished</strong>,<br />
<strong>successfully</strong><br />
<strong>reborn</strong><br />
1996. President of Estonia, Lennart Meri in New York, together with the<br />
grand old man of the Estonian diplomatic corps, Ernst Jaakson (1905–98).<br />
Ambassador Jaakson embodied Estonia’s legal continuity by his 69-year<br />
uninterrupted diplomatic service in the United States. In 1991, after restoration<br />
of independence, he was reappointed as Ambassador to the US and<br />
also to the UN and served as dean of the diplomatic corps in Washington.<br />
(ERM – Estonian National Museum)<br />
2008. Estonian e-government in working session.<br />
(The Public Service of Estonian State Chancellery)<br />
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