TALLINN - In light of the government’s cost-cutting plans, Estonia must close some of its embassies, Foreign Minister Marina Kaljurand said before Estonia’s parliament, the Riigikogu, on Thursday, Feb. 11.
“The fact is we must think about closing embassies,” Kaljurand said answering MPs’ questions.
“Considering the financial situation and the people that the Foreign Ministry has, we are no longer able to maintain a network of embassies like this,” she said.
Kaljurand declined to be specific when it came to the foreign capi...
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