Other events in Baltic States

Today and tomorrow, on November 25, Naval Forces commanders of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia will meet in Liepaja (south-western Latvia).

Participants in the meeting will be Estonian Navy Marine Commander, Captain Igor Schvede, Latvian Navy Commander, Captain Aleksandrs Pavlovics and Lithuanian Navy Commander, Captain Olegas Marinicius, as well as the Captain-Commander of the Baltic Naval Squadron "Baltron" Eugenijus Valikovas of Lithuania. The navy chiefs will discuss recent minesweeping operations carried out by "Baltron" and the schedule for year 2009.

Among the discussion topics will be also the Baltic Navy headquarters staffing procedure, as the Latvian Navy spokeswoman Iveta Kraukle informed LETA.

Meetings of Baltic States' Navy commanders take place twice a year, the previous meeting was held in July this year in Tallinn, Estonia.