BALTIC STATES FINGERED BY PRIMAKOV.

Meeting in Moscow yesterday with the UN high commissioner for refugees, Sadako Ogata, Russian foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov attempted to underscore what he described as "the danger of mass emigration from Estonia and Latvia because of the continuing discrimination policy against permanent residents deprived of citizenship." (Interfax, October 17) The accusation ignores the twin facts that specialized international organizations have found no such discrimination, and that the mass of Soviet-era Russian settlers, whom the Baltic states accepted as permanent residents, may freely choose Russian citizenship and repatriation.

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