The Baltic Issue (1990)

November 1990. Ministers of foreign affairs of the Baltic States as special guests participating in the plenary session of European security and collaboration in Paris witnessing the signing of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. There are three dots instead of the names of county on their badges. Before the start of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), the foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania had to leave the room No. 2 where they could enter according to their status of special guest. Eduard Shevardnadze, the foreign minister of the Soviet Union, protested against the status. Roland Dumas, the foreign minister of France, explained that he was made to take back the invitation to the foreign ministers of the Baltic states to participate as special guests at the meeting of CSCE.