RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT: NO MORE APOLOGIES FOR MOLOTOV-RIBBENTROP

Publication: Monitor Volume: 1 Issue: 51

.Despite suggestions that relations between Moscow and Tallinnwere improving, Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Krylovsaid that Russia had already apologized for signing the Molotov-Ribbentroppact which cost the Baltic states their independence, and thatMoscow won’t apologize again, BNS reported July 12. While in Tallinn,Krylov pressed the Estonians to ratify the troop withdrawal accord,said that Moscow would never acknowledge the 1920 Tartu Treaty–thataccord "doesn’t work any more"– and warned Tallinnthat it must choose "either cooperation or the path of non-recognition.""I think the latter is not advisable," he added. Krylovreturned to Moscow via the ethnic Russian dominated city of Narvawhere Moscow now has a consulate.

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