Baltics and Balkans

I trust your headline writer for Saturday’s (Jan. 30) letters section has been told to write “The Baltics are not the Balkans” 1,000 times on a blackboard to be kept nearby.

While the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are struggling to convert to a market economy as Russia drags its heels in withdrawing the remainder of its occupation forces, the Balts are moving forward peacefully without the ethnic violence, which has so unfortunately consumed the Balkan region, some 1,000 miles to the south.

JAAK TREIMAN

Honorary Consul of Estonia

Canoga Park