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Outgoing Estonian Finance Minister Siim Kallas during a meeting of the leaders of the pro-business Reform Party and the populist Center Party in Tallinn, Estonia, Friday, Jan. 18, 2002. The two parties from oppposite ends of the political spectrum agreed Thursday to form a new government led by Siim Kallas. Estonia's president Arnold Ruutel on Friday nominated Kallas to be the new prime minister and steer this pro-West former Soviet republic into the European Union and NATO. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/NIPA)