List of international presidential trips made by Edgars Rinkēvičs

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This is a List of international presidential trips made by Edgars Rinkēvičs, the 11th President of Latvia.

Number of visits per country where President Rinkēvičs has traveled:

2023

Country Areas visited Dates Details Image
Estonia Tallinn 10 July First official foreign visit; met with President Alar Karis, Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, and Speaker of the Riigikogu Lauri Hussar.[1]
Lithuania Vilnius 19 July Official visit to meet with President Gitanas Nausėda and Speaker of the Seimas Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen.[2]
Poland Warsaw 16 August Working visit; met with President Andrzej Duda to discuss regional security and the Three Seas Initiative.[3]
Romania Bucharest 6–7 September Attended Three Seas Initiative summit by Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, Estonian President Alar Karis, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda, Polish President Andrzej Duda, Czech President Petr Pavel, Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen, Hungarian President Katalin Novák, Slovenian President Nataša Pirc Musar, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová, Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu and Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković. Invited guests were Moldovan President Maia Sandu, Greek President Aikateríni Sakellaropoúlou, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko and US Special Envoy for Climate Change John Kerry.
United States New York City, Boston 16–23 September Attended the Seventy-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly and the "Spotlight Latvia" business conference.[4]
Finland Helsinki 28 September Met with President Sauli Niinistö Prime Minister Petteri Orpo.[5]
Israel Jerusalem, Tel Aviv 19–20 November Solidarity visit following the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel; met with President Isaac Herzog and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.[6]
Palestine Ramallah
Ukraine Kyiv, Chernihiv Oblast 24 November Unannounced visit to express support; met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and inspected reconstruction projects funded by Latvia.[7][8]
France Paris 15 December Working visit; met with President Emmanuel Macron to discuss European security and the EU budget.[9]

2024

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Malta Valletta 5–6 February State visit; met with President George Vella.[10]
Germany Munich 13–15 February Attended the Munich Security Conference.[11]
Lithuania Vilnius 11 April Attended Three Seas Initiative Summit, where he met with Presidents of Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Grlić-Radman, Austrian Federal Minister for Integration Susanne Raab, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to sign a 10-year bilateral security agreement.
Greece Athens, Delphi 11–12 April Participated in the Delphi Economic Forum; met with President Katerina Sakellaropoulou.
Italy Rome 14–15 May Official visit; met with President Sergio Mattarella.[12]
United Kingdom London 27–29 May Working visit; held an audience with King Charles III.[13]
 Switzerland Nidwalden 15–16 June Attended the Summit on Peace in Ukraine.
Canada Toronto 6–7 July Rinkēvičs travelled to Toronto to attend the XVI Latvian Song and Dance Festival in Canada. President attended the Mass Choir Concert on July 6 and the Folk Dance Spectacle on July 7, as well as the Ecumenical Church service at St. John’s Church in Toronto.[14]
United States Washington, D.C. 10–11 July Attended the 75th Anniversary NATO Summit.
France Paris 25–28 July Attended the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics.[15]
United States California, New York City 17–27 September Met with tech companies in Silicon Valley (NASA, Meta, Google) and attended the 79th session of the UN General Assembly.[16]

2025

Country Areas visited Dates Details Image
Finland Helsinki 14 January Rinkēvičs attended the Baltic Sea NATO Allies Summit in Helsinki. He also met with President of Finland Alexander Stubb, Prime Minister of Estonia Kristen Michal, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, and Vice-President of the European Commission Henna Virkkunen.[17]
Ukraine Kyiv 24 February Rinkēvičs travelled to Kyiv to mark the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Poland Warsaw 25–26 February State visit; met with President Andrzej Duda and received the Order of the White Eagle.[18]
Norway Oslo 27–28 March Official visit; audience with Crown Prince Regent Haakon and met with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.[19]
Vatican City Vatican City 26 April Attended the funeral of Pope Francis at St. Peter's Square.
Poland Warsaw 28–29 April participated in the tenth Three Seas Initiative leaders' meeting.
Japan Tokyo, Osaka 18–20 May Rinkēvičs travelled to Tokyo to met with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. He attended Expo 2025 in Osaka, Kansai.[20]
Lithuania Vilnius 2 June Rinkēvičs met with the President of the Republic of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda, the President of Estonia Alar Karis, the President of Poland Andrzej Duda, the President of the Republic of Czech Republic Petr Pavel, the President of Slovakia Peter Pellegrini, the President of Romania Nicușor Dan, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Prime Minister of Norway Jonas Gahr Støre, the Prime Minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen, the Prime Minister of Finland Petteri Orpo, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden Maria Malmer Stenergarde, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iceland Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir, the Minister of Defence of Bulgaria Atanas Zaprjanov, the Minister of Defence of Hungary Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, when the discussion was in the context of preparations for the NATO summit.
Finland Kultaranta 16–17 June Karis met with Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Estonian President Alar Karis at the 13th Kultaranta Talks event held at the Finnish President's summer residence in Kultaranta, located near the city of Turku, where the discussion focused on the security situation in Europe, transatlantic cooperation, and the Middle East, where the Estonian head of state participated in the discussions for the first time this year.
Netherlands The Hague 23–25 June Rinkēvičs attended the 2025 NATO summit.
Estonia Tallinn 4 July Met with Estonian President Alar Karis and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda. They discussed Russia's aggression against Ukraine, developments in the Middle East, regional security matters, and infrastructure projects such as Rail Baltic and Via Baltica. They will also address transatlantic relations in light of the recent NATO summit in The Hague.[21]
Austria Alpbach 25–27 August Participated in the European Forum Alpbach.
Poland Warsaw 28 August Met with Karol Nawrocki, the presidents of Estonia, Alar Karis, and Lithuania, Gitanas Nausėda and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. These discussions with the leaders from the region are a preparatory step for Polish President’s upcoming visit to Washington, DC, next week. They also took part in a teleconference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.[22]
Finland Helsinki 16 September State visit; awarded the Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland.
United States New York City 20–25 September Attended the 80th session of the UN General Assembly.[23]
Denmark Copenhagen 28–29 October Official visit; met with King Frederik X and received the Order of the Elephant.
Brazil Belém, São Paulo 3–10 November Attended COP30 and visited the Latvian diaspora in Nova Odessa.

2026

Multilateral meetings

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