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Latvia
In August 1991, AJC was the first major Jewish organization to call on the United States to recognize the reestablishment of the Baltic states’ independence. AJC later supported expanding NATO membership to the three Baltic nations and welcomed their accession to the EU in 2004.
Former Latvian President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga delivers the keynote address at the gala opening of the Shapiro Silverberg Central Europe Office in Warsaw in 2017.
AJC entered into a formal partnership agreement with the Council of Jewish Communities of Latvia in 2006 and has been closely working together ever since. In 2017, an AJC leadership delegation paid a two-day visit to Latvia, touring the Jewish Museum and meeting with Jewish community leaders.
“AJC attaches great importance to our relationship with Latvia, whose democratic independence, NATO membership, and accession to the EU we’ve enthusiastically supported,”
– AJC CEO David Harris
AJC CEO David Harris has visited Latvia several times and was decorated with one of the country’s highest honors in 2007 by then-President Vaira Vike-Freiberga. AJC engages with Latvian diplomats across the U.S. and Europe and meets with senior Latvian officials each year on the side lines of the UN General Assembly. In October 2020, AJC lauded Latvia’s decision to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in its entirety.
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