Earlier, Estonian
parliamentary speaker voiced a statement that Russia must return the
territories mentioned in the 1920 Tartu Peace Treaty to Estonia.
MOSCOW, November 20.
/TASS/. The Kremlin regards Estonia’s territorial claims against Russia as
unacceptable, Russian presidential spokesman, Dmitry Peskov told the media on
Wednesday.
"We believe that
[this demand] is unacceptable and we cannot agree with it," Peskov said in
the wake of the Estonian parliamentary speaker’s statement that Russia must
return the territories mentioned in the 1920 Tartu Peace Treaty to Estonia.
Estonia’s Foreign
Minister Urmas Reinsalu stated on Tuesday the ratification of the treaty on the
border between his country and Russia at the moment had no prospects due to
disagreements over the Tartu Peace Treaty. Earlier, Estonia’s Interior
Minister, leader of the Conservative People’s Party Mart Helme claimed that Russia
had not returned 5.2% of the original territory to Estonia yet. He added that
Estonia would wait for a settlement of the dispute in accordance with
international law.
As a Russian
diplomatic source told TASS earlier, Helme was most probably referring to
Ivangorod and part of the Pechora district. Under the Tarty Peace Treaty
concluded between Russia and Estonia on February 2, 1920 those territories had
belonged to Estonia. They were incorporated by Russia after Estonia joined the
Soviet Union. The Russian Foreign Ministry has stressed more than once that the
Tartu Peace Treaty lost force the moment Estonia joined the Soviet Union.
Source: ITAR-TASS
20-11-2019
