[governance] US and Estonia Sign Cyber Partnership

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

Dear All,

See the US State Department Press Release below:

Remarks at a Cyber Partnership Agreement Signing With Estonian Foreign
Minister Urmas Paet

Remarks
John Kerry
Secretary of State
NATO
Brussels, Belgium
December 3, 2013

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*MODERATOR: *Good afternoon, and thank you all for being here today. It is
my pleasure to welcome Secretary of State Kerry and Estonian Foreign
Minister Paet who will sign a U.S.-Estonia Cyber Partnership Statement.
Estonia is a key ally of the United States and a recognized leader on
issues of cyber security and internet freedom. This statement formalizes
the commitment of the United States and Estonia to continue working
together in key areas to enhance an open, interoperable, secure, and
reliable information and communications infrastructure, and to prioritize
openness and innovation on the internet.

We now turn to Secretary Kerry and Foreign Minister Paet for the signing of
the statement.

(The statement was signed.)

*SECRETARY KERRY:* Thank you. Well, I’m very happy to join my counterpart,
Foreign Minister Paet, in signing this internet statement, which pledges to
increase the cooperation and continue the cooperation between the United
States and Estonia with respect to cyber freedom, cyber security, internet
freedom. And this is an effort that guarantees that a country like Estonia,
which has been a great partner in fighting for internet freedom, is going
to help us to build our law enforcement capacity, education capacity, civil
society, and provide unfettered access to people for the social media and
the internet, even as we manage complex problems in the internet. So we’re
delighted and I thank you very, very much for joining with us on this.

*FOREIGN MINISTER PAET:* Thank you.

*SECRETARY KERRY:* Thank you. Do you want to say anything, too?

*FOREIGN MINISTER PAET:* Yeah, sure. I also thank – just to add that United
States, of course, is for Estonia very important partner in cyber security
issues, also internet freedom issues, and all different, so-called, “E”
issues like e-government, e-administration, and so on. And I’m glad that we
are not just doing our bilateral cooperation, but we already have done
jointly some project in third countries. And I’m really glad that Estonia
is experience in IT and e-developments has been really interesting also for
more and more countries all around the world. Thank you for this great
opportunity.

*SECRETARY KERRY:* Very much so. Thank you, Urmas. Thank you very much.
Thank you very, very much.

*FOREIGN MINISTER PAET*: Thank you.

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