Condolences from President Ahtisaari

President Martti Ahtisaari telephoned President Meri on Friday morning and expressed his deepest condolences both to the families of the volunteers, who perished in the course of the peacekeeping battalion exercises, and to the Republic of Estonia. President Ahtisaari remembered a similar accident at the exercises of the Finnish Defence Force and emphasised that he fully understands and shares the mourning of Estonians.