At NATO allies summit, Latvia touts coordinated Ukraine approach, without Hungary

[1/5]Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg attend news conference in Riga, Latvia June 11, 2024. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tabSlovakia stopped state military aid to Ukraine when Prime Minister Robert Fico’s government took power last year.The Slovak foreign ministry told Reuters Caputova’s term in office was ending this week, and Fico was unable to attend as he was recovering from an assassination attempt in May.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson also attended Tuesday’s event, which comes ahead of a NATO leaders meeting in Washington in July.

“I’m confident that NATO allies will agree at the NATO summit”, Stoltenberg told reporters, declining to comment on the absentee countries.

Stoltenberg will visit Budapest on Wednesday.

The Bucharest Nine includes Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.

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Reporting by Andrius Sytas in Vilnius and Janis Laizans in Riga; additional reporting by Jason Hovet in Prague. Editing by Bernadette Baum

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Andrius covers politics and general news in the Baltics – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the three key states along the NATO’s eastern flank, the staunchest supporters of Ukraine and the most vocal critics of Russia in NATO and the European Union. He wrote stories on everything from China pressuring German companies to leave Taiwan-supporting Lithuania to Iraqi migrants hiding in the forest at the Belarus border to a farmer burning grain for heat during the energy crisis.

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