The Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has named its new Parliamentary Secretary as Gunda Reire. The appointment comes after the previous Parliamentary Secretary, Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševica was appoint.
National parliaments should create support groups for the Crimean Platform and decisively adopt statements, declarations, and decisions in support of Ukraine. Speaker of the Parliament of Latvia Inara Murniece called for such actions, speaking at the first parliamentary summit of the International Crimean Platform, reports Ukrinform. In particular, she indicated that such a group had already been created by the Latvian Seimas. "Colleagues, I ask all of you to think about the possibility of establishing the same support groups in your parliaments," Murniece said. In her opinion, statements and declarations are a clear signal to "our societies, our voters, what .
Russia brought about a million of its citizens to the territory of occupied Crimea. At the same time, the Russian Federation is trying to artificially change the demographic situation on the peninsula. This was announced by the Chairman of the Mejlis, Refat Chubarov, during a meeting with the top leadership of Latvia. The Embassy of Ukraine in Latvia announced the meeting on its Facebook account. On September 5-6, during the stay of the Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov in Latvia, he and the Ambassador of Ukraine Oleksandr Mishchenko met with the President of Latvia Egils .
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