Posted on 05/10/2005 1:26:08 PM PDT by lizol
Putin Calls Estonian, Latvian Territorial Claims “Stupid”
Russian president Vladimir Putin said Russia is ready to sign border treaties with Estonia and Latvia but without “stupid territorial claims.”
He called “nonsensical” a situation when “in Europe, in the 21st century, a country presents territorial claims for another and wants to sign a border treaty simultaneously,” RIA Novosti news agency reported.
Speaking at a press conference after the Russian-EU summit, Putin said Russia is ready to “wait till our colleagues ripen for the real work and are ready to sign the documents.”
He said he charged the Foreign Ministry with signing the border treaty with Estonia. Speaking to an Estonian reporter, Putin said “we are ready to do that although your leadership made an erroneous decision, in my opinion, not to arrive in Moscow (for the celebration of the Victory Day). We will not disturb relationship and force the situation.”
Putin said that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia lost “dozens of thousands of its original territories” and supposed Latvia does not want to “deal everything again in Europe.” He reminded that the Soviet Council of the People’s Deputies had already condemned the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact in 1989. “Do you want us to do this every year? We think the question is decided. We have already said about it, and it is enough.”
Putin added that Estonia became an independent state after a “deal between Germany and Russia” in 1918. Another deal of 1939 brought the countries back to Russia, he said, calling Baltic states “small change” in those deals. “We will not say if it was good or bad. Those are historic facts as well as the use of slave labor in America,” Putin said.
Or the much more recent use of slave labor in the USSR, used in building the White Sea Canal and other "great" Soviet achievements.
Slave labor in America? What does he call serfdom!?
He is really losing it.
Sounds like he found one of Yeltsin's stashes of vodka. Before lunch.
It's just that Putin's mentallity is no different from 19th Century, when imperialism was common in Europe. France and maybe few other Europe countries still have this mentality too, called the old Europe. These people are also still brainwashed by Marx's and Kant's ideology mixed with colonialism. There must be some way to educate them so their mentallity and civilization will match America and the New Europe of the 21st Century.
Hmmm, I wish it was possible, but I'm pessimistic about it
Whatever the past wrongs, redrawing the internationally accepted borders is dangerous. If somebody dislikes their current borders, then why others should like their borders that were often subject to change through war, conquest and other non-amicable means ?
But are they really accepted? I don't really know the issue, just posted an article, which I found interesting.
Perhaps Latvia should unofficially but also non-secretly supports some little Russian breakaway republic like Putin is doing in Georgia and Moldova.==
They already did it. Some estonian sniper women was caught in Chechnya lately.
Putin Calls Estonian, Latvian Territorial Claims “Stupid”
This is why Russia lose friends, maintaing relations with dictators and ignoring human rights of those countries. ==
DO you mean that Russia has to support territorial claim against her?
Belarus will be next for Russia to lose. Let Poland have another buffer state. :) ==
Let give to Beloruss town Wilno. Let give to Germany town Kenigsberg. Let us recreate Estern Prussia.
"What is wrong in Moscow; Putin is living in stay of amnesia. Putin needs Raphacholin or Walidol or maybe Nerwosol. This is absolutely ironic on his part to even touch XXI century; which allows him to by pass XX century history. I hope Putin would take a deep breath and another deep breath and hopefully Raphacholin would help his liver from drinking too much."
Dzieki wam wszystkim/Thank you all my husband do have had write
Thank you all
"I also forget something, redrawing maps brings old wounds back and creates serious problems. Problems we should not dealt with it; rather concentrate on something else something more demonic and which should draw our attention to it."
Thank you all
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