Edited sentence: Estonia is and remains a small but important ally of the United States in Afghanistan.On June 16, 2009 President of the United States Barack Obama and his Security Advisor James Jones met the Estonian Head of State Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who was currently on a working visit to the United States of America, in Washington.President Ilves affirmed that while Estonia, like its allies, had suffered severe losses, they would go all the way and will not desert the mission in Afghanistan.The main issues that were discussed at the meeting in the White House included the global economic recession, trans-Atlantic relations, the transparency and credibility of NATO as an organisation established to protect its allies, and the current situation in Afghanistan, the most important foreign mission of the alliance