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Visit of participants of the Czech Security Academy to Latvia

From Monday 22 April to Friday 26 April 2024, participants of the current edition of the Security Academy visited Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia as part of a study visit. The intensive program included visiting local institutions and meeting all three Czech ambassadors to the Baltic states.

The program started in the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) in Tallinn. Then continued at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Tallinn where also discussion was held with Ambassador David Král and First Secretary Vratislav Grégr. The next day was followed by a meeting with analysts from the The International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) and a visit to the Estonian Parliament.

On the third day, the program continued in Vilnius with a visit to the Lithuanian Military Academy and a meeting with members of the Group for Resilience to Hybrid Threats at the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence. In the afternoon, was held a meeting with Marius Janukonis, Director of the Department of Strategic Management and Analyses of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, and then a discussion with the Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Lithuania Aleš Opata and diplomat Marie Stojanová.

The program in Riga was opened with a discussion with the Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Latvia Martin Vítek, Deputy Chief of Mission Veronika Sidó and Secretary Tomáš Pavlíček. This was followed by a visit to NATO's Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence in Riga and a meeting with senior expert Mario Nicolini. The last point of the study trip was a meeting with Viktors Makarovs, Special Representative for Digital Affairs at the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Before the start of the study trip the participants had a meeting with the Ambassadors of the Baltic States to the Czech Republic, specifically with Gita Kalmet, Ambassador of Estonia, Elita Kuzma, Ambassador of Latvia, and Laimonas Talat-Kelpša, Ambassador of Lithuania to the Czech Republic.

The Security Academy is a project of the new non-governmental non-profit organization Center for an Informed Society, which stands on the pillars of a resilient and democratic society that resists authoritarian tendencies.