Representatives of the mass media are invited to attend a press conference on the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s Spring Session which will be held in Riga on 28 May – 1 June.

The press conference will be attended by Mr. Gundars Daudze, Speaker of the Saeima, and Mrs. Vaira Paegle, head of the Latvian delegation to the NATO PA.

The press conference will be held on 11 February at 10:30 at the Guest Room of the Saeima on Jēkaba iela 11.

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The Saeima website now contains a link to topical information about the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s (PA) 2010 Spring Session that will be held from 28 May until 1 June 2010 in Riga.

The new Internet website offers information about the planned agenda of the Session, the Latvian delegation to the NATO PA, as well as about documents adopted at previous sessions. Moreover, visitors can look at photos and video materials, as well as learn more about both the NATO PA and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation itself.

As the date of the Session gets closer, this website will also contain news important for inhabitants of Latvia and the mass media, as well as practical information for delegates and guests of the Session who will arrive in Latvia at the end of May.

The new website will be regularly updated with the latest information concerning preparation for the Session and the course of the Session.

The Spring Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA) will be held in the capital of Latvia, Riga, from 28 May to 1 June 2010. 

More than 700 participants from NATO member states, associate member states and observer countries are invited to attend the Spring Session of the NATO PA. During the Session, parliamentarians will be addressed by numerous distinguished experts and public officials, including Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Secretary General of NATO.

During the NATO PA Spring Session in Riga, it is planned to address a wide variety of topics. Parliamentarians from the NATO member states, together with experts, will discuss the unity of the Alliance, the role of NATO with regard to maritime safety and cooperation between NATO and the EU on this issue.

Members of the Saeima will participate in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s (NATO PA) Autumn Session, which will take place from 13 to 17 November in the city of Edinburgh, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

At the meeting of parliamentarians of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s member states, our country will be represented by Vaira Paegle, head of the Latvian delegation to the NATO PA, and Dzintars Rasnačs and Visvaldis Lācis, permanent members of the delegation.

A wide range of issues will be discussed at the NATO PA Autumn Session in Edinburgh. Parliamentarians will discuss a possible change in the Alliance’s strategy in Afghanistan, NATO-Russia relations, as well as the role of Central Asian countries in transatlantic energy security.

Parliamentarians will also discuss the impact of the global financial crisis upon the national economy of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s member states; the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and cyber security problems.