LANDSBERGIS ON NATO ACCESSION, RUSSIAN BALTIC ENCLAVE.
LANDSBERGIS ON NATO ACCESSION, RUSSIAN BALTIC ENCLAVE.
Addressing the Estonian parliament yesterday in Tallinn, Lithuanian parliament chairman Vytautas Landsbergis upheld the Baltic states’ "right" to security within NATO. Landsbergis stated that admission of any one Baltic state would ipso facto "thwart diplomatic and political pressures" against the other two and facilitate their subsequent accession to NATO. He also urged "Europe to finally understand" that the Russian military presence in Koenigsberg/Kaliningrad region is "anachronistic, meant to intimidate, and a general European issue." (BNS, January 21)
Duma Fails in Yeltsin Ouster Bid.
