YELTSIN WARNS AGAINST BALTIC ACCESSION TO NATO.

In remarks to Russian parliamentary leaders yesterday, president Boris Yeltsin warned that Russia will "revise" its relations with NATO and the recent agreement with it, if NATO "starts admitting" former Soviet republics such as the Baltic states. The Duma’s Communist chairman and opponent of the president, Gennady Seleznev, stated after the meeting that parliamentary leaders and the "Anti-NATO Association" members supported the president’s position on NATO’s enlargement and the question of Baltic accession. (BNS, AFP, Interfax, May 19. See item below)

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