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The agenda of the visit includes meetings with a colleague, the Speaker of the Latvian Parliament, Inara Murniece, the President of Latvia, Egils Levits, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, Edgars Rinkevičius. The meetings will focus on bilateral relations and cooperation, the management of the COVID pandemic, the threats from the Astrava nuclear power plant and other topics. During the visit, the President of the Seimas will also pay tribute to the victims of Latvia’s freedom struggle by laying flowers at the Freedom Monument in Riga.
“Latvia and Lithuania are facing threatening levels of coronavirus spread. Unanimously, we see clear quarantine measures and vaccination as the only way to get out of control of a pandemic. In the face of a pandemic, we must promote extremely close bilateral cooperation between We can rejoice that the parliaments of both countries are working successfully remotely and this will help to continue the work successfully and clearly emphasize common positions on issues important to our countries, “said the president of the Seimas before the visit.
He travels to Latvia at the invitation of the Speaker of the Latvian Parliament, I. Murniece.
Together with the chairman of the Seimas, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Seimas Žygimantas Pavilionis will also visit Latvia.
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