| The NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s Riga Session will end with a plenary session (31.05.2010) |
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The plenary meeting will be opened by Mr. John Tanner, President of the NATO PA. Then the participants of the plenary meeting will be addressed by Mr. Gundars Daudze, Chairman of the Saeima, and Mr. Valdis Dombrovskis, Prime Minister of Latvia. It has been planned that Mr. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General, General Abdul Rahim Vardak, Defence Minister of Afghanistan, and General Egon Ramms, Commander of the Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum, will also take the floor. During the plenary meeting, the parliamentarians will be able to put questions to both the NATO Secretary General and the Prime Minister of Latvia. There will be the live broadcast of the plenary meeting on Latvian TV or on the website of the NATO PA Riga Session. In the afternoon, a public discussion titled “NATO’s Future: A Baltic View” will be held at the Kipsala International Exhibition Centre. Its aim is to increase public awareness about security issues, and it is organised by the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation (LATO) in cooperation with the Parliament of Latvia and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Discussion participants will include Mr. Sven Mikser, Vice President of the NATO PA; Dr. Karl A.Lamers, Chairman of the Political Committee of the NATO PA; Mrs. Vaira Paegle, Head of the Latvian delegation to the NATO PA; Mr. Petras Austrevicius, Deputy Chairman of the Seimas European Affairs Committee (Lithuania); and Mr. Toms Baumanis, Chairman of the Board of the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation (LATO). The discussion will be moderated by Mr. Andres Kasekamp, Director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute. Media and Public Relations Centre of the Latvian Secretariat of the NATO PA |
On 1 June, the last day of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s (PA) Riga Session will end with the plenary session.