The National Armed Forces (NBS) does not support Latvia's possible withdrawal from the landmine prohibition convention or the so-called Ottawa Convention, the NBS Commander Leonīds Kalniņš told Latvian Television on January 22.
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Crimes committed earlier this year in Rēzekne, where three teenagers killed two men and injured one, and in Jūrmala, where a teenager stabbed his peer, are "isolated, loud" cases, State Police Chief Armands Ruks noted in an interview with Latvian Television's "Morning Panorama" on January 18.
Currently, the infection rate with Covid-19 is high in Latvia, as evidenced by the number of patients in hospitals, said the director of the Department of Risk Analysis and Prevention of the Disease Prevention and Control Center (SPKC), epidemiologist Jurijs Perevoščikovs, in an interview with Latvian Television December 11.
In the third conscription of the State Defense Service, which will start in the summer of next year, at least 600-700 young people will have to be called in on the basis of random selection, the chief of the recruitment and selection center, Major Rihards Rozenbaums, told Latvian Television November 17.
Direct flights from Rīga to the United States are currently not economically advantageous, but in the future, there should be such connectivity in the Baltic States, said Martins Gauss, President and CEO of Latvian national airline airBaltic, in an interview with Latvian Television's morning newscast Thursday.
Some teachers' salary for October is likely to be lower than promised, and problems are in calculations at both national, local government, and educational institutions level, Inga Vanaga, head of the Latvian Educationa and Science Workers' Association (LIZDA), said in an interview on the Latvian Television morning newscast November 13.
The situation with personnel is much better in the National Armed Forces this year – in addition to the mandatory defense service, more than 500 soldiers have been recruited in the regular forces, said Leonīds Kalniņš, Commander of the National Armed Forces, in an interview with Latvian Television on November 7.
The future package of laws to regulate partnerships does not address all problems. including children's issues, so same-sex couples will continue to turn to courts with those matters, Kaspars Zālītis, head of the “Dzīvesbiedri” (Life Partners) movement, said in an interview on the Latvian Television's morning newscast November 2.