Cablegate: Latvia to Participate in Global Maritime Partnerships

VZCZCXRO9430
OO RUEHAG RUEHAST RUEHDA RUEHDF RUEHFL RUEHIK RUEHKW RUEHLA RUEHLN
RUEHLZ RUEHPOD RUEHROV RUEHSR RUEHVK RUEHYG
DE RUEHRA #0396 1851434
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 031434Z JUL 08
FM AMEMBASSY RIGA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 5072
INFO RUEHZL/EUROPEAN POLITICAL COLLECTIVE

UNCLAS RIGA 000396

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EWWT EAID ECIN ECON EFIS MARR MASS MCAP LG
SUBJECT: LATVIA TO PARTICIPATE IN GLOBAL MARITIME PARTNERSHIPS

REF: STATE 50488, RIGA 301

PolEcon Off met with Captain Aigars Krastins, Director of the
Transportation Ministry's Maritime Department, on July 2. Krastins
stated that he had reviewed the Global Maritime Partnership (GMP)
documentation, and that Latvia would like to be a GMP participant.
He qualified that by saying that his department is understaffed and
that he did not know at this moment how Latvia could participate,
but he stated that his office fully supports the initiative.

© Scoop Media