The
Baltic region, a corner of Europe I came to gradually know after I retired from
the UN and initiated my current professional interests, is a very sensitive
geopolitical area. The Baltic States are now in the EU and NATO. But they have
a powerful and resentful neighbour and significant Russian minorities within
their borders. I have always thought they need to have a very wise relationship
with that neighbour. They can achieve it and, at the same time, continue to
strengthen their links with our part of Europe and with NATO. The balancing act
is possible. It is actually the only option that is sensible.
What
is not sensible is to post a tweet in the social media, as the Latvian Foreign
Minister did yesterday, that says: “The
more I follow modern RU, the more I come to conclusion that she will end up
like German Reich after both WWI & WWII & it'll be too late”. Such
statement shows political immaturity. It does not serve the interests of his
country and the region. And if we take into account that Latvia is now chairing
the EU, until the end of the semester, the tweet is unacceptable, as I see it
from Brussels.
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