Marten Kokk
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COREPER I Ambassador of Estonia to the EU. Views are personal and represent government’s position only if specifically indicated. Retweet≠endorsement
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Worth listening to Timothy Snyder in Tallinn 🇪🇪 yesterday: We are in 1938 now. If Czechs had resisted Nazi Germany at the time, there would have been no WWII. If Ukraine gives up or we give up 🇺🇦 we will move to 1939. Ukraine helps us to extend 1938.
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Estonian PM 🇪🇪 Kaja Kallas this evening in
#Berlin
🇩🇪: "The price of stopping a dictator always goes up with every delay and every hesitation. Meeting evil halfway is still a victory for evil."
#StandWithUkraine
#ArmUkraineNow
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My 🇪🇪 PM Kaja Kallas quoted
@Kasparov63
in april “The price of stopping a dictator always goes up with every delay and every hesitation. Meeting evil halfway is still a victory for evil." No more hesitation when it comes to 🇺🇦 joining NATO. We will save many innocent lives.
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Estonia 🇪🇪 has voted. All clear. Current PM Kaja Kallas scored all time record in personal votes (more than 30000) on Parliamentary elections and Reform party will have clear majority for forming different coalitions. Estonian support to Ukraine 🇺🇦 will strengthen!
@kajakallas
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Estonia 🇪🇪 PM Kaja Kallas yesterday about the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine (quoting Theodore Roosevelt) “…to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.”
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Finnish 🇫🇮 PM Sanna Marin today: “It’s not right that at the same time as Russia is waging an aggressive, brutal war of aggression in Europe, Russians can live a normal life, travel in Europe, be tourists. It's not right,”
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Estonian 🇪🇪 PM Kaja Kallas earlier this week to
@sternde
: “We should not be afraid of our own power and should not overestimate Russia's power. The fear of escalation leads us to make ourselves smaller than we are. That is wrong"
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Today 19 years ago Estonia 🇪🇪 joined the EU 🇪🇺. I will not add any particular comment, but will just say that Estonian GDP at the time in 2004 was 12157 million USD. In 2022 it was 38131 million. Average monthly salary in 2004 was 466 EUR and it was 1775 EUR by the end of 2022.
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Estonia 🇪🇪 has provided 240M eur in military aid to Ukraine 🇺🇦 and is housing 30K+ refugees. We will keep working relentlessly also on diplomatic front on the 6th package of the EU🇪🇺sanctions. No excuse to rest before this horror is over.
#StandWithUkraine
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Estonian 🇪🇪 PM Kaja Kallas today: “We, as West, have been guessing what Russia's next steps are.
I think it's time for them to guess, what are our steps forward.” We should not always tell what “we don’t do”. It only emboldens the aggressor.
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Munich Security Conference 2023 is approaching and it’s time to retweet the most watched video from 2022: Estonian 🇪🇪 PM Kaja Kallas on Russian negotiation tactics.
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Estonian 🇪🇪 PM Kaja Kallas at the Munich Sec Conference: “Putin is showing the dictator's handbook in real life. Lets not discuss to do something, let's do everything to stop him. Don't repeat the same mistakes like we did in history.” Cost of stopping a dictator will only go up.
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Prime Minister of Finland 🇫🇮
@MarinSanna
this morning in Prague 🇨🇿 before the EU 🇪🇺 leaders meeting: “The way out of the conflict is for Russia to leave Ukraine. That’s the way out of the conflict.”
#StopRussia
#StandWithUkraine
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My 🇪🇪 PM Kaja Kallas quoted
@Kasparov63
in april “The price of stopping a dictator always goes up with every delay and every hesitation. Meeting evil halfway is still a victory for evil." No more hesitation when it comes to 🇺🇦
#ArmUkraineNow
. We will save many innocent lives.
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Estonian 🇪🇪 PM Kaja Kallas: “Russia's war in Ukraine has once again made clear why Central and Eastern European countries wanted to join NATO after the Soviet occupation. NATO does not exist as a threat to Russia, its purpose is to defend its members against the threat of Russia”
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Estonian 🇪🇪 PM Kaja Kallas this week: I will highlight two reminders from the 1930s. First, if you look away, eventually it will cost more. Second, if aggression pays off somewhere, it's an invitation to use it elsewhere. Let’s finally learn from history and do the right thing.
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We continue to work for our common Victory 🇪🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺. Warm atmosphere today in Brussels at
#EUCO
. Lots of solidarity and strong support for 🇺🇦 territorial integrity. Strong commitment to accountability and military support.
#StandWithUkraine
#ArmUkraineNow
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Weather forecast for today - Hiiumaa (Estonia) 29°C and Fiji 27°C.
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Only quote I will remind us all: “The price of stopping a dictator always goes up with every delay and every hesitation.” By
@Kasparov63
it’s somewhat incomprehensible that everyone is not able to see it.
Worth listening to Timothy Snyder in Tallinn 🇪🇪 yesterday: We are in 1938 now. If Czechs had resisted Nazi Germany at the time, there would have been no WWII. If Ukraine gives up or we give up 🇺🇦 we will move to 1939. Ukraine helps us to extend 1938.
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🇪🇪 PM
@kajakallas
to
@derspiegel
today: "When WWII ended, Western Europe began rebuilding their countries. But for us in Eastern Europe, Stalinism continued. The deportations, the oppression and the killings…” Important lesson why 🇺🇦 should free all of its territory.
#ArmUkraine
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One of the quotes from Estonian 🇪🇪 PM Kaja Kallas we should remember for the foreseeable future: “Weakness provokes Russia or any other aggressor, strength doesn´t".
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Estonia 🇪🇪 PM Kaja Kallas quoted Theodore Roosevelt recently “….to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.” Something
@elonmusk
should think today as well.
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Kõpu Lighthouse on the Estonian 🇪🇪island of Hiiumaa. It is one of the oldest lighthouses in the world having been in continuous use since its completion in 1531.
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Remarkable article about Estonia's 🇪🇪Prime Minister Kaja Kallas. She demands the prosecution of Vladimir Putin as a war criminal. She insists that Ukraine 🇺🇦 has to win the war and that only the Ukrainians can determine when that victory is achieved.
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“The secret to happiness is freedom, and the secret to freedom is courage” - PM of Estonia 🇪🇪 Kaja Kallas.
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Estonian 🇪🇪 PM Kaja Kallas quoted
@Kasparov63
in April 2022: “The price of stopping a dictator always goes up with every delay and every hesitation.” No more hesitation when it comes to clear path of Ukraine 🇺🇦 to NATO. Aggressor 🇷🇺 understands just that.
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Estonian 🇪🇪 Prime Minister Kaja Kallas this evening in Brussels: “Freedom is priceless, but to keep it always has a price.” We should learn from history that the price of stopping any dictator always goes up.
#ArmUkraineNow
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Gas now trading below 45 EUR/MWH. Europe has gotten something right.
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Estonia 🇪🇪 had 550-600 lynxes last autumn. The number of cubs was 86. This is the second year in a row when number of lynxes is increasing. If the growth rate continues, 100 lynx litters is expected to be born this year. Good news for nature!
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Remember this is actually Europe in 2023. Never forget about Ukraine 🇺🇦!
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Estonian 🇪🇪 PM Kaja Kallas few days ago: “Everyone should do what they can (to help Ukraine 🇺🇦), because the price will go up with every hesitation". If we had given Ukraine everything we give now, this war of aggression might not have happened.
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The longest night and shortest day in Tallinn 🇪🇪. Photo by Michael Huang.
#UnescoWorldHeritage
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Video from Tallinn, Estonia 🇪🇪 last night. Stenbock House (residence of the Estonian Government) welcoming Finland 🇫🇮 to
#NATO
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Ursula von der Leyen🇪🇺today in Tallinn 🇪🇪:“Estonia – like many of the Baltic States – has been warning Europe for years about the dangers of our dependency on Russian fossil fuels. You were right, and Europe should have followed your example earlier.”
@kajakallas
#StopRussia
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The close relations between Estonia 🇪🇪 and Latvia 🇱🇻 are well known. In fact the relationship is so close that Pres Lennart Meri once said that Estonians and Latvians are one nation speaking in two languages. Happy celebrations of your 104th Independence Day dear Latvian friends!
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Today 32 years ago we 🇪🇪 regained our independence after decades of Soviet occupation. This year we will celebrate it once again, but with our thoughts also in Ukraine 🇺🇦 who will celebrate their Day of Independence on 24 August while still fighting the aggressor.
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Estonian 🇪🇪 Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tallinn right now. Welcome to NATO Finland 🇫🇮!
#StrongerTogether
#WeAreNATO
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On
#EuropeDay
, we also award in Estonia 🇪🇪 the title of European of the Year. This year’s title goes to the PM
@kajakallas
. Well deserved! And Happy
#EuropeDay2023
to everyone!! 🇪🇺🇪🇪🇪🇺🇪🇪🇪🇺🇪🇪🇪🇺🇪🇪
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Tbilisi now. Statue of Georgian poet and national liberation movement figure Akaki-Tsereteli with the European flag.
#StandWithGeorgia
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At this minute - 20 years ago - Estonia 🇪🇪 joined the EU 🇪🇺. I will just remind that Estonian GDP at the time in 2004 was 12 billion USD. In the end of 2023 it was 42 billion. Average monthly salary in 2004 was 466 EUR and it was nearly 2000 EUR by the end of 2023.
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Estonian 🇪🇪 PM Kaja Kallas yesterday: We must not fall into the trap of fear, because that is exactly what Putin wants. He wants us to be afraid and not support Ukraine 🇺🇦 out of fear. We should act decisively and stop our adversaries from dictating our future.
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Estonian PM 🇪🇪 Kaja Kallas on
@IntlCrimCourt
arrest warrants against Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova: “
#ICC
sends out historic signal. Reminder that no-one is immune, not even heads of state. Russian regime will be held accountable.” Justice will prevail.
#Accountability
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20 years ago today Estonia 🇪🇪 joined NATO. Estonian nominal GDP at the time in 2004 was 12 billion USD. In 2023 it was 42 billion. Average monthly salary in 2004 was 466 EUR and it was 1904 EUR by the end of 2023. None of this would have been possible without credible security.
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Estonian 🇪🇪 bilateral aid to Ukraine🇺🇦 is highest as % of GDP. Everyone has a room for improvement - until Russian war of aggression hasn´t failed we haven´t done enough. The quicker it fails, more innocent lives will be saved. Good vote at UN yesterday, but more action needed.
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Mongolia has always had a special place in my heart. Since watching their then president
@elbegdorj
speaking to the European Parliament
#EPlenary
in 2015 saying that democratic Mongolia will be the EU's strategic anchor in east. He received standing ovations after the speech.
In
#UlanBator
,
#Mongolia
, locals hold a
#protest
rally outside
#Russia
’s embassy in solidarity with
#Ukraine
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Kuressaare castle in Saaremaa island, Estonia 🇪🇪. Photo by Michael Huang.
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Estonian 🇪🇪 PM
@kajakallas
today in Tartu: “I don't know when or if ever the time will come when the Russian people will ask themselves and their leaders: why did we need this war?”
#RussianWarCrimes
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Estonian 🇪🇪 PM Kaja Kallas to
@errnews
today: “Ukraine is fighting and the only thing they are asking from us is actually military assistance to help them do it, and that is not much to ask.”Those who have fought and paid for peace with lives understand the true cost of freedom.
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Estonia 🇪🇪 votes. By evening today 313 466 votes were cast online (67000 more than 2019). Most likely this will be the first time when electronic voting overtakes regular one. Estonian PM 🇪🇪Kaja Kallas voting few days ago from her favourite bookstore.
#EstonianElections
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Tallinn Town Hall Square this morning. It has been a marketplace since the Middle Ages. Photo by Michael Huang.
#Estonia
🇪🇪
#UnescoWorldHeritage
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Great speech by President Joe Biden in Warsaw. Tells that Vladimir Putin cannot remain in power. Reminds also “The Baltic Way” where Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians lined up in a human chain together to send the message of Freedom.
@POTUS
🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇱🇱🇻🇱🇹🇪🇪
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Estonian 🇪🇪 PM Kaja Kallas today in Munich 🇩🇪: “the crime of aggression is a crime of the Russian leadership. Criminals must know that their judgment day will come. It is also a case of not repeating the horrors of history.”
@MunSecConf
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Sunrise in medieval Tallinn 🇪🇪 around 04.00 AM. Photo by Michael Huang.
#UnescoWorldHeritage
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Estonian 🇪🇪 PM
@kajakallas
to
@washingtonpost
today: “Ukraine’s 🇺🇦 success on the battlefield means that we have been on the right track and that we must make use of this momentum,”
#ArmUkraineNow
#StandWithUkraine
@Denys_Shmyhal
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Estonian 🇪🇪 PM Kaja Kallas after attack on
#Dnipro
and before Ramstein meeting: “My call to allies and partners: let us ramp up our support. Ukraine 🇺🇦 needs weapons, including tanks and air defence.
#Russia
must be held accountable for all crimes committed”.
#ArmUkraineNow
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Nagasaki 1945 and Marinka (Ukraine) 2023 with every building damaged. No need for comment.
#StopPutinNOW
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Not only among Ukrainians. Worlds richest man mocking nation who is trying to survive genocide is a disgrace we haven’t experienced for a while.
Elon Musk has mocked Ukraine’s war-time leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, using a meme to scoff at the president’s calls for Western aid.
It unleashed a wave of anti-Musk reactions among Ukrainians.
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Rather rare occasion after the 🇪🇪 PM
@kajakallas
article in New York Times this morning and before the
#EUCO
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Estonian 🇪🇪 PM Kaja Kallas explains why accountability for war crimes and crime of aggression is of utmost importance. Russians still learning from Soviet era history books and are incapable of admitting responsibility
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First time in history all Baltic states have female Prime Ministers. Prime Ministers of Lithuania 🇱🇹 Ingrida Šimonytė, Latvia 🇱🇻 Evika Silina and Estonia 🇪🇪 Kaja Kallas.
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The electricity grids of Ukraine and Moldova have now been successfully synchronised with the Continental European Grid. With mindboggling speed. Very important practical step for Ukraine 🇺🇦 and very important step for Europe 🇪🇺!
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Presidents of 🇱🇹🇵🇱🇱🇻 and 🇪🇪 meeting with the President of Ukraine 🇺🇦
@ZelenskyyUa
today in Kyiv.
#ArmUkraineNow
#StandWithUkraine
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Estonian 🇪🇪 PM Kaja Kallas to Le Monde 🇫🇷 earlier this week: Europeans must continue arms deliveries, the truth of the war is whoever has more ammunition, wins. The countries that support 🇺🇦 have much higher defense budgets than Russia, so what is preventing us from delivering?
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Estonian 🇪🇪 PM Kaja Kallas explained at the
@MunSecConf
the difference between peace and “peace” where torture, killings, deportations continue on Russian occupied territories. This is why aggression needs to be pushed back in 🇺🇦.
#ArmUkraineNow
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Aurora Borealis natural light display in Estonian 🇪🇪 sky yesterday. Photo by Sten Siniallik Photography.
#NothernLights
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"The price of stopping a dictator always goes up with every delay and every hesitation. Meeting evil halfway is still a victory for evil."
This is how 🇪🇪 PM
@KajaKallas
ended her speech in Berlin with the words of
@Kasparov63
. Most pertinent quote of the year.
#StandWithUkraine
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Estonian 🇪🇪 PM Kaja Kallas before the EUCO 🇪🇺 meeting: look through your warehouses and stocks and send weapons and ammunition to Ukraine and send them now. We should not forget that we have the resources, the economic might. Let’s not be afraid of our own power.
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Citizens' perceptions of other countries as allies from November 2021 to November 2022 according to
#MSCreport
. Perception of Estonia 🇪🇪 has improved a lot.
@MunSecConf
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Estonian 🇪🇪 PM Kaja Kallas to
@washingtonpost
: My personal preference would be to agree on the path to Ukraine’s 🇺🇦 (NATO) membership. They are fighting for democracy, freedom, sovereignty and territorial integrity. These are also values that are dear to the EU 🇪🇺 and to NATO.
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Nationwide news story in Estonia - endangered black stork hatched 6 chickens - which is the record number over 30 years.
#BlackStork
#Biodiversity
#Estonia
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Time to quote
@Kasparov63
again - Meeting evil halfway is still a victory for evil!
#StandWithUkraine
#StopRussia
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Estonian 🇪🇪 PM Kaja Kallas before the European Council 🇪🇺 meeting this week: our deterrence needs to be credible enough to avoid war and stop Russia´s cycle of aggressions. For that we need increased defence budgets.
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Täna on rahvusvaheline lastehalvatuse vastu võitlemise päev. 1958. aasta epideemia ajal (1000 nakatumist) oli Eesti esimene piirkond maailmas, kus rakendati kogu elanikkonna vaktsineerimist. 1961. aastaks sai Eestist sai esimene lastehalvatusest vaba piirkond maailmas.
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