Update: Trudeau to meet NATO leader in Latvia after pledging support to Baltic leaders | National Newswatch
RIGA, Latvia — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the leaders of three Baltic countries bordering Russia that Canada will stand with them to fight not only the Kremlin's war on Ukraine but its cyberattacks on their countries.
After a meeting with Latvian Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš, Trudeau made the remarks in an expanded session via teleconference with their counterparts from Lithuania and Estonia. Trudeau says the ongoing show of unity among NATO allies and other democracies to back Ukraine and is a critical part of bringing the crisis to a close.
Kariņš told Trudeau the Russian invasion did not succeed in"driving a wedge between Europe and North America, driving a wedge between NATO partners." Instead, he said,"the exact opposite" happened and there has been a"coming together of minds." "We are demonstrating that, unlike what Putin thinks or mistakenly thought, democracies can and will defend not just themselves and their territory, but the principles and rules and the and the values that actually make us successful," Trudeau said.
The NATO mission in Latvia is one of four such efforts in the Baltics and Poland, designed to demonstrate the strength of the NATO alliance in the region against Russia.