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    There have been calls for calm in Finland and the Baltic states after a draft Russian decree proposed revising its borders in the Baltic Sea.Latvia said it was trying to clarify the situation, but Lithuania warned that the Kremlin was aiming to intimidate its neighbours with a “deliberate, targeted escalatory provocation”.Finnish President Alexander Stubb said political leaders were watching the situation closely and Helsinki “acts as always: calmly and based on facts”.The draft Russian defence ministry decree suggested moving the sea borders around Russian islands in the Gulf of Finland and around the exclave of Kaliningrad.

    However, it would have included territory in the eastern Gulf of Finland, several islands close to the Finnish coast and areas near the two cities of Baltiysk and Zelenogradsk in Kaliningrad.Finland and the Baltic states are all members of the EU and Nato and the military alliance is committed to defending their borders.

    Finland’s defence and foreign committees held emergency meetings on Wednesday and Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said the political leadership was “monitoring the situation closely”.

    "Sweden joined Nato in March, becoming the alliance’s 32nd member, and it has beefed up its military presence on the Baltic island of Gotland in the past two years.

    Helsinki fears Moscow has plans to “instrumentalise” migration, however the UN refugee agency has warned that the draft law could result in so-called pushbacks of people with a legitimate right to asylum.

    "Pushback practices put people in danger, too often resulting in severe injuries, split of families or even deaths,” said the UNHCR’s Philippe Leclerc.


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