Third round of Estonia-Russia border consultations due in Moscow Wednesday
TALLINN. May 7 (Interfax) - The third round of Estonian-Russian border treaty consultations will take place in Moscow on Wednesday, a representative of the Estonian Foreign Ministry told Interfax on Monday.
Foreign Ministry Vice-Chancellor Lauri Bambus and Ambassador to Russia Juri Luik will represent Estonia at the meeting.
Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov signed agreements on the land and sea borders in Moscow in May 2005. Yet the Estonian parliament supplemented the instrument of ratification with a preamble affirming effectiveness of the Tartu Peace Treaty of 1920. That treaty determined the pre-war border line. Russia regards the Tartu Peace Treaty as an exclusively historical document.
Moscow took the Estonian parliament's decision as an attempt to secure future territorial claims to Russia and revoked its signature under the agreements.
Consultations on the new border treaty resumed in late 2012. Two rounds have been held by now: the first of them in Moscow on October 31 and the second in Tallinn on December 18.