ANGLO-RUSSIAN TRADE
PACT NEGOTIATIONS [BY CABLET-PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT..] LONDON, September 17. The Soviet is insisting on the recognition of the Baltic States as part of the Soviet Union, before negotiating a comprehensive trade pact with Britain. • ‘ ‘ ' The “Financial News” points out that the problem revolves around the question of the release of gold belonging to the former Estonian, Lithuanian, and Latvian Central Banks, impounded in London, and the release of Estonian and Latvian ships now held in British ports. It is understood that the Foreign Secretary (Lord Halifax) proposed to the Soviet Ambassador (M. Maisky) that if the question of the sovereignty of the Baltic States were left in abeyance, the value of the Baltic States’ gold and British claims against those countries could be regarded as cancelling each other out. If the Soviet agreed to general .trade talks, an amicable arrangement could be reached regarding the detained ships. Negotiations are believed to be continuing, but the prospects of an early agreement are not considered rosy.- 1 ■ '
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19400918.2.52
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 18 September 1940, Page 8
Word Count
167ANGLO-RUSSIAN TRADE Greymouth Evening Star, 18 September 1940, Page 8
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.