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Foreign Minister of Latvia Edgars Rinkevics has confirmed a staunch Latvian support for the territorial integrity of Ukraine, and welcomed the country's steps to preserve this integrity.

We will continue to defend Ukraine’s interests in the frames of EU, and in international organizations as well. We hope that this phase of active crisis will finish soon, and then the next steps will follow, he said at a press conference in Dnipropetrovsk on July 17.

The minister also added that just today one should start thinking over further cooperation between the EU and Ukraine, Latvia and Ukraine, at the regional level, in addition to the central one.