ETA news summary May 27, 2002

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ETA news summary May 27, 2002

This year's Eurovision song competition was won by Latvia whose presenter Marie N got 176 point with a superb staging. Malta was second with 164 points and third Estonia with 111.

Estonian singer Jelena Juzvik made Eurovisoion history, since she was the presenter for both Malta and Estonia and thereby won two awards.

Finnish television viewers did not find out that the composer of the final song on the Eurovision show was Raimond Valgre since YTV2 commentator named the composer as Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Foreign minister Kristina Ojuland said that the successful staging of the Eurovision song finale spells success also at the NATO and European Union accession talks.

Dismantling of the Saku hall and outside staging structures were being removed as soon as the competition ended and the hall will be empty as of today.

This week a well known Russian female politician Irina Hakamada, the vice speaker of the duma, visits Estonia and will meet with the foreign policy committee and attend a seminar on Russia.

This week Estonia and Thailand will exchange prisoner exchange ratification papers. This will enable Estonia prisoners in Bangkok convicted for carrying narcotics and imprisoned for 7 years , to be returned to Estonia.

The coast guard found an abandoned sailboat in Vainameri and three bodies of sailors some 1.5 kilomteres distant.

The constituional committee of parliament wants to pass the legislation on condeming the criminal acts of the communist party not before the 18th of June since then the visiting president of China Jiang Zemin will have left Estonia.

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