Polish president to attend Estonia's independence commemorations

The event held in the city of Tartu is to be attended by the presidents of Latvia, Lithuania, Iceland, Finland and Georgia.

The meeting is expected to provide the opportunity for talks between Duda and his Estonian counterpart Kersti Kaljulaid, Poland’s PAP news agency reported.

The two leaders met in Warsaw early June for a summit bringing together the presidents of nine countries on the eastern flank of NATO. The gathering of the so-called Bucharest Nine group was held in the run-up to the July NATO summit in Brussels.

Krzysztof Szczerski, a senior foreign policy adviser to Duda, told Polish Radio: “Poland and Estonia work closely together, guided by the common vision of strengthening regional security through the North Atlantic alliance, the presence of allied armies in our territories, joint drills and efforts to tackle joint security challenges.”

Szczerski added that Polish-Estonian collaboration also involved projects pursued under the Three Seas Initiative, which brings together 12 Central European, Baltic and Western Balkan states. These projects include the Via Rail Baltica rail link from Tallinn across the Baltic states to Warsaw as well as the Via Carpatia, a major traffic route connecting northern and southern Europe.

(aba/pk)

Source: PAP