M\u00e1l\u00feingi\u00f0 var tv\u00edskipt. Fyrst var fjalla\u00f0 um atbur\u00f0ar\u00e1sina 1987-91, \u00feegar and\u00f3fi\u00f0 gegn sov\u00e9sku n\u00fdlendustj\u00f3rninni vakna\u00f0i, og reynt a\u00f0 meta mikilv\u00e6gi \u00feessara atbur\u00f0a \u00ed lj\u00f3si s\u00ed\u00f0ari t\u00edma. \u00deeir sem \u00fe\u00e1tt t\u00f3ku \u00ed umr\u00e6\u00f0unum voru: Esko Aho, fv. fors\u00e6tisr\u00e1\u00f0herra Finna, Leszek Balcerowicz, fyrrum fj\u00e1rm\u00e1lar\u00e1\u00f0herra og se\u00f0labankastj\u00f3ri P\u00f3lverja, Ivars Godmanis, fv. fors\u00e6tisr\u00e1\u00f0herra Letta, Shelov-Kovadyaev, fyrrum varautanr\u00edkisr\u00e1\u00f0herra R\u00fasslands og J\u00f3n Baldvin Hannibalsson, fv. utanr\u00edkisr\u00e1\u00f0herra \u00cdslands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u00c1 seinna m\u00e1l\u00feinginu var athyglinni beint a\u00f0 framt\u00ed\u00f0inni: \u201cfr\u00e1 1990-2030: hvernig mun reynsla s.l. 20 \u00e1ra koma a\u00f0 notum vi\u00f0 a\u00f0 marka stefnuna n\u00e6stu 20 \u00e1rin. Til \u00feeirrar umr\u00e6\u00f0u var bo\u00f0i\u00f0 n\u00faverandi utanr\u00edkisr\u00e1\u00f0herrum Eystrasaltsr\u00edkja og Nor\u00f0urlanda, \u00feeirra \u00e1 me\u00f0al Urmas Paet, utanr\u00edkisr\u00e1\u00f0herra Eista, Carl Bildt, utanr\u00edkisr\u00e1\u00f0herra Sv\u00eda, Lene Espersen, utanr\u00edkisr\u00e1\u00f0herra Dana og \u00d6ssuri Skarph\u00e9\u00f0inssyni, utanr\u00edkisr\u00e1\u00f0herra \u00cdslendinga.<\/p>\n
A\u00f0 m\u00e1l\u00feinginu loknu var bo\u00f0i\u00f0 til \u00fatit\u00f3nleika vi\u00f0 Toonpea kastalann, \u00fear sem forseti Eistlands, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, flutti h\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0arr\u00e6\u00f0u.<\/p>\n
Daginn eftir, sunnudaginn 21. \u00e1g\u00fast, var efnt til \u201c\u00cdslandsdags\u201d \u00ed Tallinn, \u00fear sem bo\u00f0i\u00f0 var upp \u00e1 fj\u00f6lmarga menningarvi\u00f0bur\u00f0i v\u00edtt og breitt um borgina. Forseti \u00cdslands setti h\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0ina \u00e1 mi\u00f0n\u00e6tti \u00e1 \u201cTallinn Song Festival Grounds\u201d a\u00f0 vi\u00f0st\u00f6ddu miklu fj\u00f6lmenni.<\/p>\n
H\u00e9r fara \u00e1 eftir inngangsor\u00f0 m\u00edn \u00e1 fyrra m\u00e1l\u00feinginu um vi\u00f0br\u00f6g\u00f0 lei\u00f0toga Vesturlanda vi\u00f0 sj\u00e1lfst\u00e6\u00f0isbar\u00e1ttu Eista, sem sk\u00fdrir vi\u00f0 hva\u00f0a kringumst\u00e6\u00f0ur \u00cdsland t\u00f3k frumkv\u00e6\u00f0i \u00e1 al\u00fej\u00f3\u00f0avettvangi til stu\u00f0nings vi\u00f0 sj\u00e1lfst\u00e6\u00f0isbar\u00e1ttu Eystrasalts\u00fej\u00f3\u00f0a.<\/p>\n
Your struggle to restore Estonia\u00b4s independence, more than 20 years ago, was not merely a reassertion of nationalism; not only an effort to preserve your language, culture and national identity;<\/p>\n
It was also a democratic revolution \u2013 a final settlement of the second world war in Eastern Europe, and an endgame in the Cold War.<\/p>\n
An endgame in the Cold War \u2013 that is where your secession from the Soviet Empire came into conflict with Mr. Gorbachev\u00b4s overall aim \u2013 to keep the Soviet Union together at all cost. \u2013 It was also in conflict with the realpolitik of Western leaders: to end the Cold War with the USSR; to reach new agreements on disarmament and arms control; to liberate Eastern Europe; to negotiate the peaceful reunification of Germany. And for the US, to secure Soviet complicity towards the 1st U.S. invasion of Irak in January, 1991.<\/p>\n
Your secession from the Soviet Union set the precedent for the dissolution of the USSR; it threatened to dethrone Gorbachev and return the hardliners to power in the Kremlin; it could lead to the resumption of the Cold War \u2013 with a serious risk of armed conflict in Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n
Those were momentous issues of War and Peace; We were at an end of an era.<\/p>\n
This is why \u2013 instead of welcoming you with open arms \u2013 Western leaders put pressure on Lithuania to freeze their declaration of independence; and pressed your leaders to settle for a compromise with your colonial masters.<\/p>\n
The gap between the Rhetoric and the Realpolitik – of the principles and the practice \u2013 of the leaders of the Western Democracies had become almost unbridgeable.<\/p>\n
This is why I felt there was a moral imperative for small nations to act \u2013 to fill the vaccum \u2013 in the name of solidarity of small nations. And that is what I and my Danish colleague \u2013 Uffe Elleman Jensen – tried to be.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00deann 20. \u00e1g\u00fast s.l. var efnt til m\u00e1l\u00feings og h\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0ahalda \u00ed Tallinn, h\u00f6fu\u00f0borg Eistlands, til \u00feess a\u00f0 minnast \u00feess, a\u00f0 20 \u00e1r voru \u00fe\u00e1 li\u00f0in \u2013 \u00feann 22. \u00e1g\u00fast – fr\u00e1 \u00fev\u00ed a\u00f0 Eistar l\u00fdstu yfir endurreistu sj\u00e1lfst\u00e6\u00f0i s\u00ednu, og \u00cdsland var\u00f0 fyrst r\u00edkja til a\u00f0 vi\u00f0urkenna \u00fea\u00f0 og koma \u00e1 stj\u00f3rnm\u00e1lasambandi milli r\u00edkjanna. Fyrir \u00feessu m\u00e1l\u00feingi st\u00f3\u00f0u utanr\u00edkisr\u00e1\u00f0uneyti Eistlands og \u201cThe Estonain Foreign Policy Institute\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allar_greinar","category-greinar_og_vidtol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jbh.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jbh.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jbh.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jbh.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jbh.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jbh.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2754,"href":"https:\/\/jbh.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/2754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jbh.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jbh.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jbh.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}