NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Friday urged the Russian administration to distance itself from the threats against the Baltic states by the scandalous politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
NATO chief urges Russia to distance itself from Zhirinovsky's statements re Baltics
6th September 2013, 14:15
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Rasmussen who is visiting the Lithuanian capital dismissed as fully unacceptable the statement by the Russian Liberal Democratic Party politician who said the Baltic states would be occupied or destroyed if they chose to support military strikes on Syria.
«It would, of course, be easy to dismiss those statements as absurd,» Rasmussen told journalists at the Lithuanian parliament on Friday.
«However, we also have to take such statements seriously and they are completely unacceptable. I would very much like to see official authorities in Russia distance themselves from such absurd statements,» said the NATO chief.