On 17 September 2026, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Baiba Braže, met with the US Special Envoy to Belarus, John Coale. The officials discussed ways to mitigate and prevent the Belarusian regime’s instrumentalisation of migration, which poses a threat to the external borders of the European Union and NATO, as well as to regional security. The Minister of Foreign Affairs expressed her gratitude to the US for its support to date for the security of Latvia and the Baltic region, including for…
On 17 September 2026, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Baiba Braže, met with the US Special Envoy to Belarus, John Coale. The officials discussed ways to mitigate and prevent the Belarusian regime’s instrumentalisation of migration, which poses a threat to the external borders of the European Union and NATO, as well as to regional security. The Minister of Foreign Affairs expressed her gratitude to the US for its support to date for the security of Latvia and the Baltic region, including for strengthening Latvia’s role as an external border of the European Union and NATO. Baiba Braže also highly commended the US’s involvement in securing the release of political prisoners in Belarus. “As long as the regime continues to repress its own…
