MOSCOW, June 21 (RIA Novosti) - The Foreign Ministry cautioned Tuesday that the amendments to the Russian-Estonian border treaty proposed by Estonia's parliament would complicate its ratification. Estonia's parliament ratified the treaty Monday, but "included references to documents that contain irrelevant legal and political provisions that are not related to the essence of the law," Alexander Yakovenko, a foreign ministry spokesman, said in a statement.
"Russia has warned its Estonian partners that attempts to insert biased assessments of events that took place in the Baltics in the 1930s-1940s in the fabric of modern bilateral relations could complicate the process of ratification," said Yakovenko. "Tallinn did not heed our arguments and thereby took on responsibility for the border treaties' future," he said.
