Governor of the Kaliningrad region Anton Alikhanov . File photoKALININGRAD, July 5 Governor of the Kaliningrad region Anton Alikhanov offered to present the map to Polish President Andrzej Duda, who called the Baltic an inland sea of NATO. Duda, opening a meeting of the National Security Council of the republic on Monday in Warsaw, said that the Baltic the sea is now becoming an inland NATO basin. «Well, let's open the map, it is not an inland sea of NATO. Unless they have already accepted our country there, maybe I'm behind, maybe Duda knows something that I don't know,» he said Alikhanov RIA Novosti. «I can even give Duda a card, our Crimea is there too,» the governor added. The leaders of the NATO countries at the summit on June 29 officially invited Sweden and Finland to join the alliance. This became possible after several rounds of negotiations with Turkey, including at the highest level, after which Ankara withdrew its objections to the accession of new members. Earlier, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said that after the entry of Finland and Sweden into the North Atlantic Alliance, the Baltic Sea region risks becoming into the arena of military competition. In turn, Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev told RIA Novosti that Russia will not give up the space of the Baltic, Barents Seas, and the Arctic to «hunters of other people's good,» NATO countries may not even dream of it.
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