Article: ESTONIA: PRESIDENT ILVES: ESTONIA, LITHUANIA HAVE HAD SIMILAR SORROWS, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, OUR VICTORIES HAVE ALSO BEEN SIMILAR

The office of the President issued the following news release:

"For centuries, Lithuania and Estonia have stood on the same threshold. Our sorrows have been similar, but more importantly - so too have been our victories. After all, together, we have torn down the iron curtain erected to keep us physically, morally and cultural cut off from our European home," President Toomas Hendrik Ilves said on Saturday, February 16th at the Defense Forces Parade organized in Vilnius on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the Republic of Lithuania.

"Lithuania and Estonia have had common enemies and common oppressors, but more importantly - today in the European Union and NATO, we have common ...

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