Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who came to the Latvian capital on Monday for a one-day working visit, will exchange with his counterpart Maris Riekstins here on Tuesday the ratification instruments of the Treaty on the Border Between Russia and Latvia, Head of the Latvian Foreign Ministry’s Press Service Diana Eglite told Itar-Tass.
“The agenda of the visit also includes the signing of two more bilateral documents – an agreement on the status of military cemeteries and a treaty on cooperation in the field of social maintenance,” she stated. Moreover, the Latvian and Russian foreign ministers are planning to discuss some pressing problems, linked with the relations between the two countries, the results of the work done by the Latvian-Russian Intergovernmental Commission, the priorities of further cooperation, and some problems of interaction within the EU-Russia framework.
The prime ministers of Latvia and the Russian Federation signed the Border Treaty in Moscow on March 27, although it was initialled ten years ago. Both sides have already ratified it. The Treaty is to come into force after the ratification instruments are exchanged.