The Russian government approved a Foreign Ministry proposal Saturday to pull out of a border treaty signed earlier with Estonia.
Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov signed a decree approving the Foreign Ministry's proposal on notifying Estonia of Russia's intention to withdraw from a treaty on the Russian-Estonian border and a treaty on the delimitation of maritime territories in the Gulf of Narva and the Gulf of Finland, the government press service said.
The two treaties were signed in Moscow on May 18.
The government decided to suggest to the president that the notification be forwarded to Tallinn, the press service said.
The Foreign Ministry said in June it would be impossible to submit the border treaties for ratification by the parliament following changes the Estonian parliament made to its preamble, which alluded to Soviet occupation of the Baltic nation, during ratification.
Moscow has rejected the changes as "unacceptable," saying Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania willingly joined the Soviet Union.
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