On 4 October 1982 the European Parliament accepted a resolution by which the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the EEC were invited to arrive at a common position concerning the Baltic question and to submit this question to the UN subcommittee session for decolonization and the follow-up conferences on European Security and Co-operation.1 The European Parliament were in this respect, inter alia: “mindful of the fact that the Russian annexation of the three Baltic states until now has not formally been recognized by most European countries and the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia2 and the Holy See still hold the concept of ‘Baltic State’ (…)”. It is thus perhaps worthwhile to investigate the position of the Netherlands regarding the Soviet annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.