The border treaty between Estonia and Russia will be signed in the coming few months, after it has passed domestic approvals in Russia, Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet said on Friday.
Estonian formin: Border treaty will be signed in coming few months
9th June 2013, 17:29
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Paet told the evening news program of ETV public television that since domestic procedures in Russia take at least a couple of weeks the time and the place where the treaty will be signed were not known yet.
Given that in 2005 the border treaty was signed in Moscow it would be logical for it to be inked in Tallinn this time, Paet said. He added that signing of the border treaty and a historic visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to Estonia would only do good to bilateral relations.
During a meeting that took place on the sidelines of a Council of the Baltic Sea States ministerial meeting in the Russian town of Kaliningrad on Thursday Paet invited the foreign minister of Russia to visit Estonia to sign the border treaty.