The Latvian Foreign Service also strengthens Latvia’s main priorities – security, economic development and care for people – in international courts. For example, over the past three years, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has upheld Latvia’s position in several important cases concerning the protection of the Latvian language as a constitutional value, the continuity of Latvian statehood, and Latvia’s security in the current geopolitical circumstances. Focus should also be placed on…
The Latvian Foreign Service also strengthens Latvia’s main priorities – security, economic development and care for people – in international courts. For example, over the past three years, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has upheld Latvia’s position in several important cases concerning the protection of the Latvian language as a constitutional value, the continuity of Latvian statehood, and Latvia’s security in the current geopolitical circumstances. Focus should also be placed on support for Ukraine and demanding accountability from Russia for its actions, for instance, through the establishment of a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. It is also worth mentioning the ECtHR judgments that unanimously…