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  • 3 July 2025
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• Change of His Majesty’s Ambassador to Latvia: Kathy Leach
  • 3 July 2025
  • Press release
• UK and Nordic-Baltic Eight Ministerial Roundtable: Joint Statement
  • 11 March 2025
  • News story
• Aurora Forum: Minister Doughty Keynote Speech
  • 11 March 2025
  • Speech

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• Joint statement on further action to counter Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’
  • 16 December 2024
  • Policy paper
• Latvia: legal and prison systems
  • 3 April 2024
  • Guidance
• Conflict, Stability and Security Fund: Eastern Europe and Central Asia annual review summaries 2020 to 2021
  • 22 May 2023
  • Policy paper

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