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Western allies with a Baltic Sea coastline will join forces to oppose Russian provocation, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said in the Finnish coastal city of Porvoo on Thursday. “If Russia’s pinpricks attempt to divide us, we will draw closer together,” Baerbock said ahead of a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Council of the Baltic Sea States in Porvoo starting on Thursday and continuing into Friday. Security in the region meant security against Russia and not with Russia, Baerbock said. The council was set up in 1992 to support the political and economic transformation of th…