Taking the floor in the debates at the Assembly’s Autumn Session, which is taking place from 13 to 17 November in Edinburgh (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Vaira Paegle, head of the Latvian delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, expressed doubts about Europe’s new security architecture proposed by Russia.

During the debates, V. Paegle, head of the Latvian delegation, posed the following questions: “How is Russia’s desire to develop a new pacifistic security initiative in Europe compatible with statements by Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a member of the Russian State Duma, that the Baltic regions inhabited by people of Russian nationality should be annexed to Russia? How is that compatible with the large-scale Russia-Belarus military exercises that were recently held near the borders of Latvia, Lithuania and Poland? How is that compatible with the decision adopted by the Russian State Duma about the possibility of using military force to protect its citizens abroad?”