Denmark Recognizes Three Baltic States
Agence France-Presse
COPENHAGEN —
Denmark late Saturday became the first country to decide to fully recognize the three breakaway Baltic republics and will “send ambassadors there as soon as possible,” Foreign Minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen said early today.
The Danish official said the Baltic foreign ministers have been informed of the decision.
Denmark recognized Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia when they became independent after World War I and never accepted their annexation by the Soviet Union in 1940.
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