So decided the members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Latvian Parliament. Since the start of the Russian aggression in Ukraine, Latvia has supported kyiv by providing military equipment, but also by taking a stand.
With our regional correspondent in Vilnius, Marielle Vitureau
Russia is a “terrorist state”. This is how the members of the Latvian Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee have just described Russia in a statement. Russia’s targeted military attacks against civilians and public spaces in Ukraine are terrorism, and Russia is a state sponsor of terrorism.
Joined by RFI, Rihards Kols, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, hopes that Parliament will approve this text unanimously. “ Like all the decisions taken by Latvia to support Ukraine since February 24 “, he specifies.
Russians are subject to very strict control at the Latvian borders. The Latvian State Security Service announced in early July that it had refused entry to 53 citizens of the Russian Federation, inter alia, because they supported Russian military aggression in Ukraine.
But Riga wants to go further. She asks the European Union to stop issuing visas to Russians, whether for tourism, work or studies. A measure already adopted by Estonia which intends to raise this issue at European level at the end of August.
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