Latvia to appeal for funds for Russia

  • 2003-07-10
  • Baltic News Service
RIGAThe Latvian Foreign, Interior, Transport and Finance ministries are currently preparing arguments for the European Commission so that EU funding be provided to Russia for the improvement of its border crossing points with the Baltic state The Foreign Ministry's foreign economic policy departmen's director, Maija Manika, said that this is one of the ways Latvia is trying to solve the accumulated problem or long queues on the Latvian-Russian border, as the Latvian border is expected to be in the future an external border of the EU, thus also a problem of the EU. Manika said that the Forei...
 
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