The foreign affairs committee of the Estonian parliament finds that the diplomatic representation of Estonia in the United States should not be reduced, proposing to the country’s foreign ministry to revoke the decision to close the consulates general in New York and San Francisco.
The foreign affairs committee of the Estonian parliament finds that the diplomatic representation of Estonia in the United States should not be reduced, proposing to the country’s foreign ministry to revoke the decision to close the consulates general in New York and San Francisco.
While the Estonian foreign ministry is planning to close its consulate general in San Francisco and the historic, monumentally important consulate general in New York City – under the pretext of cost cutting – the ministry is actually spending USD30,000 a month on the residence of the Estonian ambassador to the United Nations.
Sten Hankewitz, the Executive Editor of Estonian World, writes that by closing the Estonian consulate general in New York City, the country’s government is ripping the heart out of Estonia’s 20th century history and destroying the very principles of the continuity of the Republic of Estonia.