Press and Information

No 137-E

During their meeting in Tallinn today Foreign Minister Urmas Paet and Deputy Secretary of State of the USA William Burns, who is in Estonia for a visit, spoke about the close co-operation between Estonia and the USA in international security co-operation, development co-operation, and the cyber sector.

Foreign Minister Paet stated that the NATO summit in Chicago must give a clear message that the alliance is capable of reacting to the complicated economic situation and remaining the strongest military alliance. “We call on all allies not to reduce their defence spending and to fulfil their responsibilities so that NATO will be capable of fulfilling its responsibilities in the future and can preserve its deterrent capability,” he added. Paet noted that during the upcoming NATO summit it is also necessary to give a strong and positive message to the countries that would like to join NATO in the future—Georgia, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.