Section: The Baltic Course (Latvia)
Latvian and Finnish presidents support strengthening sanctions against Russia
Due to a deterioration of the situation in Ukraine, both Latvian President Andris Berzins and Finnish President Sauli Niinisto expressed support today towards strengthening sanctions against Russia, reports LETA. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Lithuania at UN Security Council: the onus is on Russia to put an end to aggression in Ukraine
On 26 January, at Lithuania’s request, the United Nations Security Council discussed the deadly shelling of Mariupol on January 23, when 30 people were killed and 90 wounded, reported BC Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. …read more Source: The Baltic...
EU leaders threaten new Russia sanctions over Ukraine
European Union leaders have tasked their foreign ministers to consider tough new sanctions against Russia when they meet Thursday in response to a bloody upsurge in fighting blamed on Moscow, reports LETA/AFP. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Latvian and German MFA discussed the situation in Ukraine
In Berlin on 26 January 2015, Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics met with Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs and talked about the tense security situation in the region, and the attack by pro-Russia separatists on the civilian residents of the city of Mariupol in Ukraine, reports BC the press service of...
Grybauskaite met with Ukrainian and Georgian leaders in Davos
President Dalia Grybauskaite met with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili to discuss regional security issues and the progress their countries have made in implementing European reforms, reported BC presidential press service. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Latvian MFA and colleagues discussed relations with Russia in Trakai
On 16 January in Trakai, Lithuania, Latvia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Edgars Rinkevics, took part in a meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Baltic States. The Ministers exchanged views on the developments in Ukraine and relations with Russia, coordinating the position of the Baltic States in advance of the EU Foreign Affairs Council...
EP resolution: sanctions against Russia should stay in place until it changes its aggressive policy in Ukraine
EU sanctions against Russia should stay in place until it changes its aggressive policy in Ukraine, respects the ceasefire, withdraws its troops and stops supporting separatists, the European Parliament said in a resolution supported on Thursday, informs LETA. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Estonian MFA in Kyiv: there is no point in discussing alleviating sanctions against Russia
While meeting with the Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council Oleksandr Turchyno and discussing the security situation in eastern Ukraine, Foreign Minister Keit Pentus-Rosimannus stressed Estonia’s support for Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity, reports BC Estonia’s MFA. …read more...
Rõivas in Ukraine: EU will continue its current policy towards Russia
At the meeting with Arseni Jatsenjuk, President of Ukraine, Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Keit Pentus-Rosimannus affirmed that Estonia will support Ukraine on its chosen path and that the European Union will continue its current policy towards Russia until the situation in Ukraine improves. …read more...
David Lidington confirms British support for the priorities of Latvian Presidency in EU
On 13 January, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, Edgars Rinkevics, met in Riga with the Rt Hon David Lidington, Minister of State for Europe at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. The Ministers exchanged opinions on current developments in Ukraine, Latvia’s priorities for its Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the...
