The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Latvian Parliament adopted the motion to identify Russia as a state that supports terrorism on August 2, this year. The next step is for the Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, to discuss the topic at a meeting of the Latvian Parliament (at the earliest). This year’s date is August 11th).
Zakharova condemned the idea as “yet another aggressive gesture by Latvian MPs that fits nicely with Riga’s anti-Russian hysteria.” The Latvian side has all responsibility for this, and should first consider the potentially disastrous implications, such as These are provoking remarks about Latvia and its people.
According to Zakharova, the governing elite’s pathological fear of Russia has already produced major economic and social issues in Latvia, as well as a drop in its citizens’ standard of life, and she believes the situation will worsen in the future.
Many politicians and academics have pointed this out, including Neil Ushakov, a member of the European Parliament and former mayor of Riga, who foresaw a disaster on the scale of the 1990s in Latvia and called for a social emergency.
Isn’t it past time for Latvian legislators to quit following foreign rulers and become honest representatives of their people who care about their fate? Zakharova inquired.
At a meeting on August 2, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of Latvia’s SAIMA (one-chamber parliament) accepted a draught declaration identifying Russia as a terrorist state, which its chairman Richards Coles had already publicised on social media.
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Kharova: Latvia’s proposal to label Russia a “terrorist state” is a hostile move in keeping with anti-Russian hysteria.
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