Article: ESTONIA: TBILISI UNIVERSITY AWARDS HONORARY DOCTORATE TO PRESIDENT ILVES

The office of the President issued the following news release:

State visit to the Republic of Georgia.President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who is on a state visit to Georgia, was awarded an honorary doctorate today by Tbilisi University.

In a lecture following the ceremonial conferment of the degree, President Ilves said that Estonia is carefully following the developments in Georgia, since the two countries are united by a complicated past and similar expectations for the future.

"We are formerly subjugated peoples," noted the Estonian Head of State. "We share in the nineteenth century an almost simultaneous national renaissance, led by the leading poets and writers of our respective peoples ...

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