Do not call the wolf to help

The presidents of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia said that their countries will not participate in a wide coalition, which is proposed to create for the fight against the Islamic State if Russia is one of the members of this coalition. It is reported by delfi.ee.

“To date, Russia occupies the territory of one country and is conducting military operations in the territory of the two countries - Ukraine and Georgia,” said Lithuania President Dalya Gribauskaite.

The head of the Estonian state, Toomas Hendrick Ilves, agreed with this and called Russia an aggressor.

In turn, President of Latvia Raymond Weionis said that the problem of Islamic terrorism should not distract the European Union from the situation in Ukraine. "Our common task is to preserve the issue of Ukraine high on the agenda of the EU until the Minsk agreements are fully fulfilled," he said to Grybauskaite and Ilves.

After a series of terrorist attacks on November 13 in Paris, French President Francois Hollande proposed to form a "large and unique coalition" of countries ready to fight the Islamic State. Russia stated that she agreed to join such a coalition, if its members “respect Syria sovereignty”, that is, they will not oppose the dictator Bashar al -Assad.