Estonia hostages 'alive'

  • 2011-06-22
  • TBT Staff

TALLINN -- Lebanon's president has said that his sources indicate the seven Estonian cyclists who were kidnapped earlier this year are still alive.

"The president just now told me at our meeting that, according to his sources, it is very clear that the kidnapped Estonian citizens are alive and that various Lebanese agencies are continuing to do their utmost to solve the situation," Estonian foreign minister Urmas Paet said in an interview with ERR. 

Paet is currently on his third visit to Beirut since the kidnappings took place near the Syrian border in late March.