On 11 September 2024, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will host a one-day seminar, “Women, Peace and Security Agenda in Latvia’s Defence and Internal Affairs Sectors”. The aim of the seminar is to…
31 August 2024 sees 30 years since the withdrawal of the armed forces of the Russian Federations from Latvia was completed. After independence was restored, it was a priority for the Foreign Service,…
A photo exhibition “The Baltic Way 35” is taking place in Helsinki, Finland throughout the month of August 2024. The exhibition is being held at the premises of the Finnish newspaper Helsingin…
On 20 August 2024, the Permanent Mission of Latvia to the United Nations (Geneva) organised a seminar on Latvia’s experience in arms export controls during the annual meeting of the parties to the…
From 20 to 23 July 2024, Andrejs Pildegovičs, Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Head of UNSC Task Force – a secretariat for Latvia’s UN Security Council candidacy – was on a…
Membership of the UN Security Council (UNSC) in 2026-2027 is one of the long-term objectives of Latvia’s foreign policy, also set out in the National Development Plan of Latvia for 2021-2027. Latvia…
On 9 July 2024, the Permanent Mission of Latvia to the United Nations in New York in association with the representations of Bahrain and Columbia and a United Nations think tank – the Institute for…
On 5 July 2024, in Cēsis, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia held a panel discussion, “Nothing about us without us. The role of small countries in the UN” at the democracy conversation…
On 4 and 5 July 2024, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Baiba Braže, met with the President of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Dennis Francis, who is in Latvia on a working…
On 20 June 2024, in New York, U.S., the Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dace Melbārde, spoke in a United Nations Security Council open debate on cybersecurity hosted by…
