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NATO's eastern flank countries gather in Riga ahead of crucial July summit
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11/06/2024
The Bucharest Nine (B9) group was created in the wake of Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014.
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NATO's eastern flank countries, also known as the Bucharest Nine, have gathered in Latvia's
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capital Riga, ahead of the crucial July NATO Summit in Washington.
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The Bucharest Nine event features officials and leaders from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic,
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Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, plus NATO's newcomers,
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Sweden and Finland, as well as its Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg.
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The head of the alliance will leave his post in October and has been increasing calls to
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support Ukraine in the past few months.
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On Wednesday, he is going to be in Hungary to meet Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has
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so far denied any military assistance to Ukraine.
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Countering Russia's threats to NATO is top of the agenda of the B-9 meeting.
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The ongoing illegal war of aggression against Ukraine reminds us on a daily basis that
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Russia is ready to use all available forces and means, including the military ones, to
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achieve its near-imperial goals.
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While we are meeting here in Riga, the Polish border with Belarus is seeing once again the
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weaponization of migration, with the use of illegal migration pressure, artificially introduced
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by Kremlin as part of the hybrid operation.
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We are aware that the same tools are being used right now against other states from our
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region.
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Ukraine's potential NATO membership is another issue that might be discussed in Riga.
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However, B-9 hosts Latvia reportedly rule out that an invitation could be extended in
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July.
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