{"id":17604,"date":"2022-08-02T10:53:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T10:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=17604"},"modified":"2022-08-02T10:53:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T10:53:10","slug":"visit-to-australia-by-latvian-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/08\/02\/visit-to-australia-by-latvian-foreign-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit to Australia by Latvian Foreign Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week I welcome Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs His Excellency Edgars Rink\u0113vi\u010ds to Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia and Latvia enjoy warm relations based on strong people-to-people links and the pursuit of common interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our countries are firm supporters of multilateralism, human rights, gender equality and free trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minister Rink\u0113vi\u010ds and I will discuss our shared interest in supporting Ukraine and holding Russia to account for its unilateral, illegal and immoral aggression against the Ukrainian people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will also discuss the urgent challenge of climate change and the how an Australia-EU free trade agreement can accelerate our clean energy transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minister Rink\u0113vi\u010ds will open&nbsp;Latvia\u2019s first embassy in Canberra. Australia welcomes Latvia\u2019s growing footprint in the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I welcome Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs His Excellency Edgars Rink\u0113vi\u010ds to Australia. Australia and Latvia enjoy warm relations based on strong people-to-people links and the pursuit of common interests. Our countries are firm supporters of multilateralism, human rights, gender equality and free trade. Minister Rink\u0113vi\u010ds and I will discuss our shared interest &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/08\/02\/visit-to-australia-by-latvian-foreign-minister\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Visit to Australia by Latvian Foreign Minister&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17605,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17604\/revisions\/17605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}