Interviews with Minister

12.07.2022 Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs in an interview with TSN News  

01.07.2022 Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs from the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Madrid: “In the new NATO strategy, Russia is called what it is - a threat to peace and security”

30.06.2022 Foreign Minister E. Rinkēvičs on Lukashenko’s regime, nuclear armament and Russian aggression in an interview for the Belarusian independent news outlet Zerkalo.io

20.06.2022 arrival and doorstep interview by Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs at the Foreign Affairs Council

15.06.2022 Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs in an interview with CNN: “European leaders must not be deterred by a fear of provoking Russian President Vladimir Putin”

30.05.2022 Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs in an interview for the BBC: “We are getting more and more reliant on Russian gas and oil and definitely it is very difficult to stop it immediately”

13.05.2022 Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs in an interview with Financial Times: “The Baltic Sea becomes a NATO sea”

28.04.2022 Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs in an interview with POLITICO: Ukraine’s supporters “must do more”

16.04.2022 Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs in an interview with the Washington Post: “Support Ukraine as much as you can, sanction Russia as much as you can, do as much as you can do to reduce dependence on Russia however you can and finally, yes, put more emphasis on military defense”

01.04.2022 Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs in an interview with LRT: NATO-Moscow cooperation “dead”

23.03.2022 Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs in an interview for the Voice of America: “Ukraine should decide for itself what kind of agreement it wants. No red lines, no pushing. And we must help Ukraine to defend its sovereignty”

28.02.2022. Important context from Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs talking - Support for Ukrainian EU entry - Witnessing a 'new cold war' - Allowing Latvians to fight – CNN

22.02.2022. Live interview with Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs on BBC programme #R4Today “The Today Programme”

18.02.2022. Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs in an CNN iterview on Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine: “We should be prepared for an unexpected twist of events”

11.04.2022. Austria's Chancellor Karl Nehammer meets Russia's President Vladimir Putin for talks while the war in Ukraine rages on: DW's Christine Mhundwa discusses the latest developments with Latvia's Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics

03.04.2022. Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs with BBC: “Deliberate killing of civilians with their hands tied is a warcrime. It resembles what happened in Srebrenica. And we are only in the very beginning of counting.”  (6’56 - 12’31)

31.03.2022. Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs in an interview about economic costs of Russia’s unprovoked war in Ukraine: “Ukrainians don’t pay in euros or dollars, they pay in blood.” Interview in German (from 04’38)

28.03.2022. Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs in a telephone interview with RADIO 4 about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: “We should all get serious. Because this is also about the future of Europe. [..] Putin has clearly crossed the red line.” (from 10’25)