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Estonian Foreign Minister Lennart Meriʹs interview on TV on 19.08.1991 (1991)

Title in Estonian: Lennart Meri intervjuu Toronto telekanalile

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Amateur films Duration 06:23

Estonian Foreign Minister Lennart Meriʹs interview on TV on 19.08.1991

In the evening of the first day of the August Coop (August 19, 1991) Lennart Meri, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, gives an interview broadcasted from Helsinki to the Toronto CBC news channel. Meri reads out the inquiry by the government of the Republic of Estonia - the request to the peoples and governments in the world to support Boris Yeltsin in the political situation of that time. Reporter Terence McKenna asks Lennart Meri whether he is worrying about his family in Estonia at the moment - and Meri's answer to the question is that besides worrying about his family ...

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Production Firm(s) CBC News (Canada)
Film Category Amateur films, Newsreel
Text / Dialogue English
Duration 06:23

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