BrikoX@lemmy.zip to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoLatvia PM: Let EU countries with no colonial past lead diplomacy with BRICS+www.politico.euexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkLatvia PM: Let EU countries with no colonial past lead diplomacy with BRICS+www.politico.euBrikoX@lemmy.zip to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square2fedilinkfile-text
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1898633 Archived version: https://archive.ph/tr6Gv Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230825181700/https://www.politico.eu/article/latvia-krisjanis-karins-eu-latin-americapm-let-eu-countries-with-no-colonial-past-lead-diplomacy-with-brics/
minus-squareTrudge [Comrade]@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year ago Historical sticklers could also note that Latvia had a brief past as a colonial power. The Duchy of Courland, an antecedent to Latvia, held territory on the island of Tobago in the Caribbean and on the Gambia River in West Africa in the mid-1600s. lol
minus-squareBrikoX@lemmy.zipOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoYet nowhere in that statement they said that Latvia should be the one to lead the talks. So it’s just shifting the focus.
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Yet nowhere in that statement they said that Latvia should be the one to lead the talks. So it’s just shifting the focus.