Warm reception for Latvia's Iron Lady
Sep 30, 1999
By Benjamin Smith
nEW YORK/WASHINGTON, D.C. - Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga
weathered public bluster from the Russian foreign minister on her
first official visit to the United States, where she pushed Latvian
entry into NATO and bolstered Latvia's internatiOver the course of the week beginning Sept. 20, Vike-Freiberga met with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, American NATO experts, and with several U.S. legislators, but much of her visit focused on the symbolic: She addressed the United Nati ...
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