The Ministry of Defense plans to purchase up to three hundred armored fighting vehicles Patria, developed in Finland, hoping that Latvia could also participate in their production, Latvian Television reported May 26.
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On February 17, Estonian foreign minister Eva-Maria Liimets made her first formal visit to Latvia. The Foreign Ministers discussed several issues regarding relations and cooperation.
While we may not have much in the way of oil reserves (excepting Norway) or gold deposits, the Baltic states and the wider Nordic region do have other valuable resource on which to draw. One of them is not even a physical thing, but is instead a concept: trust, says Ulf Andreasson from the Policy Analysis Department at the Nordic Council of Ministers.
Canada's foreign minister, Stephane Dion, was in Latvia July 11 to confirm plans to send around 450 troops to the country early next year.
On Monday Amos Hochstein, special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs at United States' Department of State, talked in an interview with Latvian Television's Toms Pastors over energy matters, especially liquid natural gas (LNG) which the US has recently started exporting.