BRZEZINSKI SAYS MOSCOW FUELS BALTIC ANXIETY.

Addressing a Stockholm conference on Baltic area security, Zbigniew Brzezinski urged Russia to officially reverse its position that the incorporation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania into the USSR had been legitimate. Brzezinski cited official Russian statements, including recent Foreign Ministry publications, which assert that the three Baltic states had joined the USSR lawfully and of their own free will. Russia’s insistence on the legitimacy of the Soviet occupation, coupled with Moscow’s strict objections to the Baltic states’ accession to NATO, “arouses a sense of insecurity in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania,” Brzezinski pointed out. He advised Russia to contribute to regional security and cooperation by distancing itself from the USSR’s “destructive and tragic” policies in the Baltic area (BNS, November 19).

UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT ADDRESSES PARLIAMENT ON STATE OF THE ECONOMY.