US, Latvia Sign Five-Year Defense Cooperation Roadmap - Pentagon

WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 11th May, 2019) The United States and Latvia signed a five-year defense cooperation strategic roadmap during Friday's meeting between Acting US Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan and Latvian Minister of Defense Artis Pabriks in Washington, Pentagon Spokesperson Charles Summers said in a media readout on Friday.

"During the visit, US and Latvian defense officials signed a five-year Defense Cooperation Strategic Roadmap," Summers said.

The roadmap identifies specific security cooperation priorities that both countries agreed to focus on over the next five years, the readout said.

Latvia has become the second Baltic country after Lithuania to sign such an agreement this year.

Shanahan and Pabriks discussed a broad range of defense issues during their meeting, including efforts to improve interoperability and regional command and control measures, the Pentagon said.