https://controlarms.org/blog/control-arms-receives-certificate-from-latvian-ministry-of-foreign-affairs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=control-arms-receives-certificate-from-latvian-ministry-of-foreign-affairs Control Arms Fri, 06 Sep 2019 19:51:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://controlarms.org/blog/control-arms-receives-certificate-from-latvian-ministry-of-foreign-affairs/#comment-13252 Fri, 06 Sep 2019 19:51:29 +0000 https://controlarms.org/?p=28501#comment-13252 Edgars Rinkevics has served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Latvia since 2011, and before that, as Head of Chancery to the President of Latvia. In 1993, Rinkevics started work as a journalist reporting on foreign policy and international relations at Latvian Radio. In 1995 he took up a post at the Ministry of Defense, becoming the Director of his internal department the following year. In May 1997 he became Deputy State Secretary for Defense Policy, and then subsequently the Secretary of State. Between 1998 and 2004, Rinkevics was a member of the “Latvian Way” political party. In February 1998, he became involved with discussion on the US-Baltic Partnership Charter; and from 2002 to 2003 was a member of the Latvian delegation negotiating accession to NATO (Deputy Head of Delegation).

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