TALLINN - The Estonian population ministry has unveiled a plan to launch a 1.1 million kroon (70,000 euro) advertising campaign urging residents to apply for citizenship.
The two-part campaign will both encourage people living in Estonia to go through the naturalization process and highlight that the country is "tolerant to other nationalities."
"We will deliberately give two different messages,
as we very well know that integration is bilateral," Olga Slok, the population minister's press adviser,
told the Baltic News Service.
There were more than 116,000 stateless persons in
Estonia at the beginning of this year, and the population
minister's office has set itself the aim of reducing their
number to under 112,000 by the end of 2009 and to less than
107,000 by the end of 2012.
