U.S. President Obama arrives in Estonia for talks with Baltic leaders
Reuters
2014-09-03
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United States President Barack Obama arrived in Estonia on Wednesday (September 3) on a visit designed to show U.S. solidarity with the three Baltic states ahead of a NATO summit in Wales where Russia's involvement in Ukraine is expected to be the main topic.
Obama will meet the President of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Latvian President Andris Berzins and Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite as well as Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Roivas.
The three Baltic states -- former Soviet republics that have been members of the European Union and NATO since 2004 -- are seen by some as especially vulnerable to Russian attention because of their Russian minorities and high dependence on energy shipments from Moscow.
In their comments on the Ukraine crisis, the three countries have been more hawkish than their Western partners.
Anchored in NATO, unlike Ukraine, they have far less cause to fear a full-blown Russian military invas
United States President Barack Obama arrived in Estonia on Wednesday (September 3) on a visit designed to show U.S. solidarity with the three Baltic states ahead of a NATO summit in Wales where Russia's involvement in Ukraine is expected to be the main topic.
Obama will meet the President of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Latvian President Andris Berzins and Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite as well as Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Roivas.
The three Baltic states -- former Soviet republics that have been members of the European Union and NATO since 2004 -- are seen by some as especially vulnerable to Russian attention because of their Russian minorities and high dependence on energy shipments from Moscow.
In their comments on the Ukraine crisis, the three countries have been more hawkish than their Western partners.
Anchored in NATO, unlike Ukraine, they have far less cause to fear a full-blown Russian military invas
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