Baltic Appeal

The Baltic Appeal (Estonian: Balti apell, Latvian: Baltijas harta or Baltiešu memorands, Lithuanian: 45 pabaltijiečių memorandumas) was a public letter to the secretary-general of the United Nations, Soviet Union, East and West Germany, and signatories of the Atlantic Charter by 45 Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian citizens. Sent on 23 August 1979, the 40th anniversary of the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact, the appeal demanded public disclosure of the pact and its secret protocols, annulment of the pact ab initio, and restoration of the independence of the Baltic states, then occupied by the Soviet Union.

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The appeal was published in the foreign press and constituted the basis for the European Parliament's resolution of 13 January 1983 in support of its demands. In Soviet-controlled territory, it was widespread through samizdat.

Signatories:

Romas Andrijauskas
Stase Andrijauskiene
Alfonsas Andriukaitis
Vytautas Bastys
Vytautas Bogušis
Vladas Bobinas
Romas Vitkevičius
Jonas Volungevičius
Jonas Dambrauskas
Romas Eišvydas
Rimas Žukovskas
Ivars Žukovskis
Alfrēds Zaideks
Juris Ziemelis
Liutauras Kazakevičius
Leonas Laurinskas
Valdis Larius
Algirdas Mocius
Mart-Olav Niklus
Napoleonas Norkūnas
Uldis Ofkants
Sigitas Paulavičius
Angele Paškauskiene
Jonas Pratusevičius
Jadvyga Petkevičiene
Jonas Petkevičius
Fēlikss Nikmanis
Sigitas Randys
Endel Ratas
Henrikas Sambora
Julius Sasnauskas
Leonora Sasnauskaite
Algis Statkevičius
Kestutis Subačius
Enn Tarto
Antanas Terleckas
Erik Udam
Ints Cālītis
Petras Cidzikas
Arvydas Čekanavičius
Vladas Šakalys
Jonas Šerkšnas
Zigmas Širvinskas
Mečislovas Jurevičius
Virgilijus Jaugelis

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Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2006: Fact sheet on the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and its consequences

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