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Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, left, and Latvian President Egils Levits after their meeting in Riga, Latvia, on Monday. EPA
Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, left, and Latvian President Egils Levits after their meeting in Riga, Latvia, on Monday. EPA
Latvia calls for permanent US troops to guard against Russian threat
Nato has deployed four multinational battalion-size battlegroups to defend Poland and Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia since July 2017