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Latvia
Latvia has been a NATO partner country since 1991. It is one of seven countries that were invited to begin accession talks to join the Alliance at the 2002 Prague Summit. Latvia in NATO
Latvia was a founding member
of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council (NACC), the first NATO forum
for cooperation with partner countries.
Latvia's contribution to NATO
Latvia’s National Armed
Forces have participated in all NATO-led peace operations in Balkans
since 1996. Participation in such operations allow Latvia to demonstrate
its willingness
and abilities to give the certain input for security and stability
of Europe as well as show the compliance of Latvia ’s Armed Forces with NATO standards.
Looking to NATO Membership
"I think that essentially our expectations in receiving
the invitation and becoming full members of the Alliance really relate
to the basis on which NATO was established back in 1949 and it was
established as we know as a collective defence organisation where
the members of the
organisation come to the assistance of each other and have this commitment
to assist one another in the event of one of the member states of
the Alliance being threatened, " said Ambassador Liegis, Head of
the Mission of Latvia to NATO in a special interview for the NATO
Web site.
Words from Latvia We are students from form 8 of Indra Primary School. In the class we Latvia at a glance
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