Finland joined NATO in 2023 after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, ending, together with Sweden, a long-held position of neutrality in favor of the protection afforded by the ...

Germany, Poland, and Lithuania have expressed interest in a French nuclear umbrella amid concerns about US protection ...

The Ottawa Convention also provides that each member state has the right to withdraw from the convention. Other member states, the United Nations' secretary-general and the Security Council will be ...

Sixty-six lawmakers voted in favor of leaving the treaty, 14 opposed, two abstained, and three did not vote. A Latvian ...

Since their widespread deployment in modern warfare, landmines have claimed close to one million lives globally. And the human cost extends far beyond this eye-popping number when you also consider ...

Trump ‘slashes Kyiv repayments bill’ to open up minerals deal - Zelensky said negotiations on minerals deal is “positive” as ...

The government, along with two other Baltic nations and Poland, agreed last month to quit the 1997 accord that prohibits from ...

The Latvian parliament voted to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention, a treaty banning anti-personnel landmines, citing ...

The Latvian parliament on Wednesday voted in favour of withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention international treaty that bans ...

The parliament approved the treaty exit by a large margin. The decision is set to come into effect six months after Latvia ...

On Wednesday, the Saeima adopted a law in its final reading on Latvia’s withdrawal from the Ottawa Convention, which ...

VILNIUS, April 16. /TASS/. The Saeima (Latvian parliament) has adopted in the final reading a bill on the country’s withdrawal from the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, ...