On Thursday, 30 August, the Saeima adopted amendments to several laws, stipulating support measures to entrepreneurs in order to reduce the negative impact of the rising energy prices on the Latvian economy.

Marija Golubeva, Chair of the European Affairs Committee of the Saeima, during a visit to Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, underlined that Ukraine’s place is in the family of European Union (EU) Member States. Together with other members of the U4U (“United for Ukraine”) parliamentary platform for the support of Ukraine, M.Golubeva signed a joint statement expressing strong support for Ukraine’s sovereignty, independence, unity, territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders, as well as its place in the EU.

The Chairs of the Foreign Affairs Committees of the parliaments of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Finland expressed joint support for Ukraine and its people during the committee delegations visit to Kyiv on Thursday, 25 August.

On Thursday, 11 August, the Saeima adopted a statement on Russia's targeted military attacks against civilians and public areas in Ukraine, recognising Russia's violence against civilians as terrorism and Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. The Saeima's statement calls on EU countries to immediately suspend the issuance of tourist and entry visas to Russian and Belarusian citizens.

"As neighbours of aggressor state Russia, we welcome and appreciate Finland's decision to join NATO," said Ināra Mūrniece, Speaker of the Saeima, during her meeting with Marja Riitta Korpivaara, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Finland to the Republic of Latvia, who paid her farewell call to the Parliament of Latvia on Wednesday, 10 August. 

"We highly appreciate Norway’s contribution to the close cooperation within the Baltic and Nordic—the NB8—format," said Ināra Mūrniece, Speaker of the Saeima, during her meeting with Kristian Ødegaard, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Norway to the Republic of Latvia, who paid his farewell call to the Parliament of Latvia on 10 August. 

"Security has become the main item on our bilateral agenda. We are grateful for Canada’s contribution and leadership in strengthening the security of the Baltic region, and especially for taking the lead as a framework nation of the NATO enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) battle group in Latvia," said Ināra Mūrniece, Speaker of the Saeima, during her meeting with Kevin Rex, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Canada to Latvia, on 10 August. The Ambassador paid his farewell call to the Parliament of Latvia. 

On Tuesday, 2 August, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Saeima adopted a statement on Russia's targeted military attacks against civilians and public areas in Ukraine, recognising Russia's violence against civilians as terrorism and Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. The statement of the Committee calls on EU countries to immediately suspend the issuance of tourist and entry visas to Russian and Belarusian citizens.

The desecration of the graves of Polish soldiers in Belarus is a reprehensible act that contradicts a whole series of treaties on respect for the rights of national minorities at international, regional and bilateral level. This is another and the most striking example of the Minsk regime’s actions against national minorities in Belarus, said Dagmāra Beitnere-Le Galla, Deputy Speaker of the Saeima, on Thursday, July 28.

The international community must actively engage in Ukraine’s reconstruction process, and the United Nations can play an important role in it, said Speaker of the Saeima Ināra Mūrniece, on Thursday, 21 July, meeting with Abdulla Shahid, President of the 76th Session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Maldives.