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| | BONJOUR L'ESTONIE: Estonia’s NATO Ambassador : Small country’s voice is heard in organisation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | * When Estonia joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in 2004, there was little mention in the Finnish media that in addition to Estonia, countries such as Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia had also joined the alliance. |
 | | He notes that in a number of former Soviet republics, such as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Belarus, democracy is either doing poorly, or has not taken hold at all. |
 | | In spite of the end of the Cold War, and the transformation of NATO toward a crisis management organisation, Estonia considers it important that the organisation has retained its "foundation". |
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