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Founded in 1955, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (NATO PA) serves as the consultative inter-parliamentary organization for the North Atlantic Alliance.
Bringing together members of parliaments throughout the Atlantic Alliance, the NATO PA provides an essential link between NATO and the parliaments of its member nations, helping to build parliamentary and public consensus in support of Alliance policies.
At the same time, it facilitates parliamentary awareness and understanding of key security issues and contributes to greater transparency of NATO policies. Crucially, it helps maintain and strengthen the transatlantic relationship, which underpins the Atlantic Alliance.
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 NATO is Latvia’s guarantor of security and independence. Many inhabitants of Latvia are Eurosceptics, but the majority of society does not question the need to support the state’s membership in the North Atlantic Alliance, which is a very important component of the international security system.
Within the framework of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, state legislators fulfil the function of parliamentary oversight. With regard to the role of this inter-parliamentary organisation, I would like to emphasise its strengths.
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 Honourable guests!
I am gratified that Latvia has undertaken to organise the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s 2010 Spring Session in Riga. It is a great honour for our country to welcome representatives of the world’s strongest military alliance and its co-operation partners from all around the world. Hundreds of influential politicians will visit Latvia; NATO officials, accompanying persons and journalists will come to Riga. I am confident that in carrying out this task, we will acquit ourselves honourably; moreover, it will be a wonderful opportunity for Latvia to show itself as a reliable ally, successful organiser and, of course, hospitable country.
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