Ministry of Ecoriomic Affairs, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

The Minister

Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Action and Energy June 2026 of the State of North-Rhine-Westphalia, 40190 Dlsseldorf Page 1 of 1

Minister of Economy and Industry Mr. Erkki Keido Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications of the Republic of Estonia File number:222

Suur-Ameerika 1 10122 Tallin, ESTONIA Phone:

0211/61 772-548

Dear Minister,

Thank you for your kind letter and your reflections on our close partner ship between Estonia and North Rhine-Westphalia.

1 greatly appreciate your understanding regarding the postponement of my planned visit to Estonia and 1 share your view that our regions have much to gain from strengthening cooperation, particularly in the fields of cybersecurity, digital transformation and the defence industry. These top ics are of growing strategic importance for both our economies and our societies.

North Rhine-Westphalia highly values Estonia’s internationally recog nised expertise. 1 am open and interested in your paper prepared by Nortal and CR14. 1 assure that we wiII review the proposais with interest as soon as we get them.

Your proposal to visit North Rhine-Westphalia together with a delegation of Estonian business Ieaders is most welcome. Such an exchange pro vides an excellent opportunity to identify concrete initiatives and deepen the ties between our business communities.

1 Iook forward to continuing our dialogue and to further strengthening the trship between Estonia and North Rhine-Westphalia.

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