Hussar: Finland’s accession to NATO will provide new opportunities for defence cooperation

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“The defence cooperation between Estonia and Finland has been going on for decades. Now that Finland is a member of NATO, we will have even more opportunities to further cooperation. In these complicated times, we should take full advantage of these opportunities,” Hussar emphasised. The Speakers expressed their delight that Esonia and Finland were important partners to each other which was also manifested in the close cooperation between the parliaments of the two countries.

Besides Finland’s NATO membership and the cooperation between the Estonian and Finnish parliaments, the support to Ukraine, including in its accession to the European Union and NATO, was also discussed at the meeting. Energy security was in focus, too. The President of the Riigikogu pointed out that Estonia wished to decouple itself from Russian power grid and to synchronise itself with the continental European grid. He noted that it was Estonia’s goal to establish offshore wind farms as well as to develop the use of solar energy.

Chairman of the National Defence Committee Kalev Stoicescu also participated in the meeting.

Today, Speaker Halla-aho also met President Alar Karis and Prime Minister Kaja Kallas and visited the Memorial to the Victims of Communism at Maarjamäe in Tallinn.

Photos of the meetings will be uploaded with a delay (Author: Erik Peinar, Chancellery of the Riigikogu)

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Source: Parliament of Estonia