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The first serious contacts with NATO:
President Lennart Meri at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, November 1992.
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Joint press conference of NATO's Secretary General Manfred Wörner
and President Lennart Meri in Tallinn, March 1992.
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NATO's enlargement idea is presented, Estonian politicians take
an interest in NATO. Prime Minister Mart Laar and NATO's Secretary
General Manfred Wörner in Brussels, October 1993.
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Co-operation becoming more concrete. Defence Minister Jüri
Luik signing the framework document with which Estonia joins the
Partnership for Peace (PfP) project. At NATO headquarters in Brussels,
February 1994.
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Deeper interest in Estonia – NATO's Secretary General Javier
Solana meeting foreign minister Siim Kallas in Estonia, April 1996.
Photo: Voldemar Maask |
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NATO summit meeting in Madrid. The Czech Republic, Hungary and
Poland are invited to accession negotiations with NATO and the final
communiqué confirms continuation of the enlargement process.
The progress of the Baltic countries in the course of stability and
co-operation and their quest for NATO membership is recognised, July
1997.
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NATO's Secretary General Javier Solana visiting Estonia and expressing
NATO's wish to regard the Baltic countries as potential future members,
June 1998.
Photo: Voldemar Maask |
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President Valdas Adamkus of Lithuania, President Guntis Ulmanis
of Latvia and President Lennart Meri of Estonia signed the joint
communiqué in which NATO is invited to expand into the Baltics,
Tallinn, February 1999.
Photo: Erik Peinar |
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NATO's Secretary General George Robertson confirming at his visit
to Estonia in May 2000 that the decision of NATO's further enlargement
will me made in 2002.
Photo: Erik Peinar |
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President George W. Bush of the United States clearly referring
in his speech at the Warsaw University to U.S. interests in the NATO
enlargement process: "Preparing for the NATO summit meeting
in Prague we shall not think of how little would suffice, but how
much we can do to promote freedom", June 2001.
Photo: Damazy Kwiatkowski |
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Foreign ministers of NATO's candidate countries Croatia, Macedonia,
Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Romania
and Albania in Tallinn, July 2001.
Photo: Erik Peinar |
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Estonia prepared for NATO membership. NATO's Secretary General
George Robertson stating at his visit to Tallinn that Estonia is
an "excellent candidate” for NATO membership, November
2001.
Secretary General George Robertson with Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Estonian Ambassador to NATO Sulev Kannike and Deputy Under-Secretary
Harri Tiido.
Photo: Erik Peinar |
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Commander-in-chief of the NATO European forces General Joseph W.
Ralston and chief of the defence forces vice-admiral Tarmo Kõuts
at a press conference in Tallinn, April 2002.
Photo: Erik Peinar |
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Estonian Atlantic Treaty Association delegation headed for NATO
summit meeting in Prague, November 2002.
Photo: Rauno Volmar, Eesti Päevaleht |
