Finland’s accession to NATO was a great wish for Estonia for a long time. Its realization has now also been celebrated with a stamp.
The Estonian postal service Omniva has published a stamp celebrating Finland’s accession to the North Atlantic Alliance, NATO. The stamp was officially presented at the Finnish embassy in Tallinn on Friday, and the next day’s stamp was struck at the neighboring Toompea post office.
The sealing of Finland’s NATO membership at the beginning of last month was also an important day for Estonia, and NATO membership makes Estonia and Finland closer friends than ever before, comments the Prime Minister Kaja Kallas On Omniva’s page.
– Finland’s accession to NATO strengthens both our common security situation and the security of the whole of Europe and the Atlantic region. At the same time, new opportunities are offered to increase bilateral defense cooperation between Estonia and Finland, Kallas said.
Finland’s NATO membership adds security to the long economic, cultural and civil relations between our countries; our destinies are now intertwined, said the Estonian ambassador to Helsinki Sven Sakkov.
Estonia had time to repeatedly wish Finland to join NATO since the beginning of its own membership, i.e. until 2004. Since then, no decision has strengthened Estonia’s long-term security as much as Finland’s NATO membership, he commented Postimees magazine in his editorial last month.
Before Finland’s membership, the Baltic countries were a cape-shaped, hard-to-defend area on the edge of NATO, the newspaper stated. The same position has also been presented by many politicians, including Kallas, for example, at the press conference of his visit to Helsinki at the end of last year.