{"id":2503,"date":"2024-05-15T17:26:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambriga.esteri.it\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2024-05-21T10:13:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T07:13:28","slug":"president-rinkevics-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambriga.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2024\/05\/president-rinkevics-in-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"President Rink\u0113vi\u010ds in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Italian President Mattarella welcomed the Latvian Head of State at the Quirinal Palace. President Rink\u0113vi\u010ds met also with Prime Minister Meloni and the Presidents of the Italian Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

On 15 May 2024 the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, welcomed at the Quirinal Palace the President of the Republic of Latvia, Edgars Rink\u0113vi\u010ds, for an official visit. It was President Rink\u0113vi\u010ds first visit to Italy since his inauguration last July.<\/p>\n

Italy and Latvia are bond by a “relationship of deep cooperation, a concrete and growing friendship” commented President Mattarella upon the arrival of his Latvian counterpart at the Quirinal Palace. He then referred to his visit to Riga in 2018 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the independence of Latvia: “those are days I cannot forget”, commented Mattarella in a statement reported by Italian news agency ANSA.<\/p>\n

In the afternoon President Rink\u0113vi\u010ds met with the President of the Italian Senate, Ignazio La Russa, at Giustiniani Palace and with President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Lorenzo Fontana, at Montecitorio Palace.<\/p>\n