"I bow my head in deep mourning in memory of Allain Tikko, an Estonian soldier
that has fallen in battle," President Toomas Hendrik Ilves wrote to the family
of Tikko.
"Warrant Officer Allain Tikko, who previously served on three foreign missions,
was a professional and brave soldier, a reliable comrade-in-arms for his fellow
soldiers. It is unfair and disconsolately painful that we now remember him with
thoughts of bereavement," President Ilves wrote.
"Perhaps, along with words of consolation, you can find strength in the
knowledge that although Allain Tikko died far from home, he was protecting the
security of Estoniaas a NATO ally. Allain Tikko died for Estonia," the Head of State wrote.
Prime Minister Valdis
Dombrovskis and Foreign Minister Maris Riekstins on behalf of the Government of
Latvia have sent letters of condolences to the Estonian Prime Minister and Foreign
Minister.
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