LATO Chairman of the Board Toms Baumanis attended the Bucharest Conference 2008, held on April 1-3, 2008 in Bucharest alongside the official NATO Bucharest summit 2008, thus continuing the success of the Istanbul Conference in 2004 and the Riga Conference in 2006. This conference provided a forum for leading policymakers, opinion leaders, scholars, and business [...]
On March 26-29, 2008 LATO in the framework of the project „Latvia – EU and NATO member state” organised a visit of mass media representatives from Ukraine, which was aimed to promote the relationship between Latvia and Ukraine as a possible future member state of NATO and the EU, introducing leading Ukrainian journalists with Latvia’s [...]
By utilizing Latvia’s experience in educating the school youth (school education supplement material book „NATO and Latvia’s Security” produced in 2003 by Uldis Umulis), Latvian Transatlantic Organisation in cooperation with Georgian NGO “new Generation – new Initiative” and with the support of Latvian and Georgian Ministries of Defence published a book “NATO and Georgia’s [...]
LATO was involved in the preparation of the annual Brussels Forum, organised by the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Brussels, Belgium. At the last phase of preparation work LATO Secretary General Sandis Šrāders joined the team of organisers to assist in the preparation of the Forum. LATO Chairman Toms Baumanis attended Brussels [...]
On February 12, 2008 LATO was invited to make a presentation about NATO and Latvia’s role in the Alliance for the 9-12th grade school children at the Pumpura Secondary School (Jūrmala, Latvia). Project manager Irīna Ivaškina made a presentation “Latvia and our security” with the following discussion about NATO, Latvia’s role in the Alliance and [...]
From October 29 till November 1, 2007 in the framework of the project programme „Latvia – EU and NATO member state”, Latvian Transatlantic Organisation organised a visit of journalists from different regions of Georgia.
The goal of the visit is to share Latvia’s experience of Euro-Atlantic integration and development of its democratic, legal and economic institutions, [...]
