Relations with Poland are the priority of Estonia's foreign policy, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves said in Warsaw on Tuesday during an annual meeting of Polish ambassadors.
Relations with Poland are Estonia's priority - Ilves
24th July 2013, 17:58
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Addressing more than 100 Polish diplomats and Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski Ilves delivered a lecture on the situation in Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic Sea region, Polish news agency PAP reports.
Welcoming Ilves Sikorski named him an «old friend of Poland» and «eminent European» as well as a man long involved in affairs of the region and Europe as a whole.
Ilves recalled the time when he first met Sikorski. At that time, as he put it, Eastern Europeans were not seriously treated in the West. «I remember that we met at a conference some 15 years ago. The equality between East and West was the leitmotif of our talks,» Ilves explained.
«When I was elected Estonia's president I stated that Polish-Estonian relations would be my country's foreign policy priority. We have been trying to stand by this priority,» the Estonian president declared.
On Monday evening Presidents of Poland and Estonia unveiled a commemorative plaque devoted to Estonia's national hero Gen. Johan Laidoner, the advocate of cooperation between the two states, in Sulejowek near Warsaw, at the museum of Poland's inter-war Marshal Jozef Pilsudski.