Baltic and Polish MPs walk out when Russian speaker takes rostrum in Athens

Delegates from three Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and Poland refused to listen to the speech by the Speaker of the Federation Council of Russia, Valentina Matviyenko, at the meeting of the European Conference of Presidents of Parliaments in Athens and walked out of the room, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a member of the Russian delegation. "The members of the delegation of Poland and all the three Baltic countries, who were present in the conference room, walked out when Valentina Matviyenko began to speak,” the delegate said. The delegations of the four countries returned to their seats as soon as Matviyenko finished her speech.