However, in January 1992 it announced that this action was a "betrayal of the people of the Baltic states" and that it would return the originally deposited amount of gold, now worth about 90 million pounds sterling, to the three Baltic states.
然而，1992年1月，它宣布那次出售是“对波罗的海三国人民的背叛”，它将按原本的存放储量，把已价值9000万英镑的黄金储备归还给波罗的海国家的人民。