Parts pays Lihula a reconciliation visit

Dec 22, 2004
By Aleksei Gunter

TALLINN - Prime Minister Juhan Parts this week visited Lihula, where earlier this year a controversial World War II monument had been erected and then forcibly removed by government decree, in an effort to establish a Christmas peace with the town's residents. Parts met the county district officials, visited the Matsalu national park, mingled with students and teachers of the town's high school and laid a wreath at the Independence War Monument in what was one of his most trying days as head of ...

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