"We are connected by Europe and all its current worries and hopes," President Ilves noted and stressed: "However, we are also connected by Estonia on a very personal level. It is unusual that there are two states in Europe where the parents of both presidents were Estonian citizens and – fleeing war and violence – found a new home abroad. I hope that you can visit the Kihelkonna parish in Saaremaa, where your parents were married in 1931, as well as the house at Koidu street in Tallinn where they lived a few years later."
President Ilves said he would be happy to welcome his Austrian counterpart to Estonia soon.
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