Latvian President Valdis Zatlers was one of 11 Eastern European leaders to meet with Obama ahead of the US leader signing a landmark treaty with Russia. (photo: president.lv)
PRAGUE -- Baltic leaders have said officially endorsed the "New Start" nuclear arms treaty signed by Russia and the United States following a meeting with US President Barack Obama in Prague.
"President Obama left an impression that he knows our region's and the whole Europe's issues in a wider context very well,” Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius told the Baltic News Service.
Kubilius and 10 other Eastern European leaders met with Obama as he was in the Czech Republic to sign the historic treaty. Latvian President Valdis Zatlers and Estonian President Toomas Hendrick Ilves were among those who met with the US president.
Foreign Ministers from the three Baltic States have also come out with statements praising the new treaty.
''All of us must evaluate this as a positive development,'' Latvian foreign minister Maris Riekstins told journalists.
President Obama, for his part, spoke of the contributions made by Central and Eastern European countries, including the Baltic states, toward the military mission in Afghanistan.
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