Informal Communication

Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

Riga, Latvia

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QUESTION:  Mr. Blinken, thank you so much for your time.  Very happy to see you.

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  It’s a pleasure to be with you.  Thank you.

QUESTION:  Thank you so much.  I would like to start with a question.  How do you see current security situation in the Baltics?

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Well, I think we have – what we’ve seen he

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The Welles Declaration is a proud moment in the history of U.S. foreign policy and friendship with the peoples of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Eighty years ago, the United States pointedly refused to recognize the illegal incorporation of the Baltic states into the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union’s criminal act was accomplished through the signing of secret protocols to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany in August 1939. Through decades of Soviet o

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