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Meelike Palli

Estonian diplomat (born 1954)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ16408007 ↗
Source-derived summary

Meelike Palli (born 20 August 1954) is an Estonian diplomat, philologist and translator.

In 1977 she graduated from Tartu State University. 1977–1992 she worked at Estonian National Library. In 1992 she started to work for Estonian Foreign Ministry. 1997–1999 she was chargé d'affaires ad interim of Estonia in Portugal. Since 2006 she was Ambassador of Estonia in Denmark.

In 2005 she was awarded with Order of the White Star, III class.

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The public source identifies “Meelike Palli” as estonian diplomat (born 1954). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Meelike, Palli and Estonian.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1954, 1977, 1992, 1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1954-08-20. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Meelike, Palli and Estonian providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16408007. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1954, 1977, 1992 and 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Meelike Palli” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.