NATO Deputy Secretary General to visit the Republic of Latvia

  • 01 Feb. 2018 - 02 Feb. 2018
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  • Press Release (2018) 012
  • Issued on 31 Jan. 2018
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  • Last updated: 31 Jan. 2018 15:19

The NATO Deputy Secretary General, Rose Gottemoeller, will visit the Republic of Latvia on Thursday, 1 and Friday, 2 February 2018.

She will meet the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Edgars Rinkēvičs, the State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Andrejs Pildegovičs, the State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, Mr. Jānis Garisons, and the Chairman of the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Mr. Ojārs Kalniņš.

The Deputy Secretary General will visit NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) battalion in Latvia at Camp Ādaži with the State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence. More information on the battalion is available here: http://bit.ly/2nrN7jR

Ms. Gottemoeller will deliver a lecture on NATO’s adaptation at the Riga Graduate School of Law and she will also visit the NATO Centre of Excellence on Strategic Communications.

Still and video images will be available on the NATO website (www.nato.int) after the event.