The Latest Breaking News from Edgars Rinkēvičs

The country's parliament, or Saeima, voted on 31 October to withdraw from the human rights treaty which opposes violence against women and domestic violence.

Latvia will have to uphold protection rules for women even if it quits the Istanbul Convention in a divisive move seen as backtracking on fundamental rights.

Vladimir Putin victory would lead to bloc’s members spending ‘trillions’ more on defence, says Mark Rutte

Issue of burden-sharing threatens to become major stumbling block should second Trump administration come into power

“With song we have achieved freedom. With song we have gone to war. With song we have been victorious.”

After meeting with Penny Wong, foreign minister Edgars Rinkēvičs says he will call on European Union to also support sanction

Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs told FRANCE 24 in an interview from the Latvian capital Riga on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is seeking to install a puppet regime in Kyiv. But, Rinkevics said, he believes such a plan "will fail", as the Kremlin doesn’t have the military capacity…