RIGA – I’ve attended a press conference in a seaside town of Jurmala earlier this week. Foreign ministers of small EU countries also attended the same press conference.
They were invited to sit at the head table.
The wonderful press service of our beloved nation’s foreign office scheduled 30 minutes for the whole event.
And rightly so.
Unless they’re really pissed, rarely do reserved quasi-Nordic Latvians ask questions about what’s going on in their country. Or in any other country, especially if it’s not Russia.
Same goes for local journalists. They feel that asking questions gets in the way of their reporting.
Among questions about bastardized Constitution, sticking-it-to-Russia energy policy, I’ve made a list of other questions that I didn’t have time to ask.
1. Question to Estonia’s foreign minister Urmas Paet, when is Estonia planning to invade Russia? Will it be before the EU-Russia summit later this month?
2. How do fascist countries like Estonia and Latvia get to join the glorious exclusive club of democratic nations?
3. Why does Lithuanian foreign minister Petras Vaitiekunas speak English with a Russian accent?
4. Maybe Estonia should pick on someone its own size instead of feeble Russia. Say, Belgium, for example. Belgium, how do you respond?
5. Where is Lichtenstein in all of this?
Photo: Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet answering questions that never were asked. Photo courtesy of Baltic Features.