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Article: Russian and Finnish foreign ministers discuss Russian-speakers in Baltic States
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- June 21, 2004
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AP Worldstream
06-21-2004
Dateline: MOSCOW
Russian Foreign Miniinster Sergey Lavrov on Monday urged the European Union to enforce its human rights standards in all member states, including the rights of Russian-speakers in Latvia and Estonia.
"The European Union as well as Europe as a whole cannot have persons of a second sort, non-citizens," Lavrov said at the end of the meeting with Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja.
He urged Latvia and Estonia, who joined the EU on May 1, to observe EU human rights standards and the rights of national minorities as recommended by the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in ...