BAFL ACTION UPDATES

Date: 9/23/08 Bill: H. Res. 1405
Title: Tautiesi naciet talka - tikai dazas dienas laika gut atbalstu Tautas Vietnieku nama rezolucijai 1405!

Please contact your elected representative in the U.S. House to voice your support for H. Res. 1405 congratulating the Republic of Latvia on the 90th Anniversary of its Independence. We have only a few days to get 25 cosponsors. 2008. gada 23. septembris [Click for more details]

Date: July 27, 2008 Bill: Not Specified
Title: Senate Concurrent Resolution 87 congratulating the Republic of Latvia on its 90th anniversary of the declaration of independence

U.S. SENATE CALLS ON THE PRESIDENT TO ASK THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT TO ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR SOVIET ACTIONS [Click for more details]

Date: June 18, 2007 Bill: Not Specified
Title: ALA/BAFL Call to Action

Representative Lantos to Host Russian Leaders for First-Ever Joint Congress-Duma Meeting Open to the Public [Click for more details]

Date: January 11, 2007 Bill: Not Specified
Title: Register Now for the 7th Biennial JBANC Conference on Baltic Security

Register Now for the 7th Biennial JBANC Conference on Baltic Security - February 9-10, 2007 [Click for more details]

Date: September 29, 2006 Bill: Not Specified
Title: Latvia's President Vaira Vike-Freiberga for the job of Secretary-General of the United Nations

South Korean Foreign Minister Ban retained his lead in an informal Security Council poll or UN Secretary-General on Thursday. He received 13 votes, while Latvia's candidate Vaira Vike-Freiberga came in third with 8 votes. A candidate is required to get at least nine positive votes and no veto in the official vote expected by mid-October, reports Reuters news agency. [Click for more details]

Date: June 6, 2006 Bill: FMF and IMET
Title: Funding to the Baltics

Foreign Military Financing (FMF) and International Military Education & Training (IMET) funding [Click for more details]

Date: May 24, 2006 Bill: SA 4000 to S. 2611
Title: ALA Informprogrm

On May 17, the U.S. Senate approved an amendment to the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act to include Poland in the Visa Waiver Program for at least two years. The amendment does not apply to Latvia and the other new European Union members. [Click for more details]

Date: January 6, 2006 Bill: Not Specified
Title: APPEAL FOR SUPPORT ON PACE RESOLUTION CONDEMNING CRIMES OF COMMUNISM

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has been considering for a number of years a resolution condemning communist crimes. It parallels other more successful efforts to condemn nazi crimes. [Click for more details]

Date: May 23, 2005 Bill: HCR 128
Title: U.S. SENATE CALLS ON RUSSIA TO ADMIT THE ILLEGALITY OF SOVIET OCCUPATION OF THE BALTIC COUNTRIES 1940--1991

On May 19, 2005, the U.S. Senate passed S. Con. Res. 32 calling on the Government of the Russian Federation to issue "a clear and unambiguous" statement acknowledging and condemning the illegal occupation and annexation from 1940 to 1991 of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. [Click for more details]

Date: May 12, 2005 Bill: S. CON. RES. 32
Title: CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

Expressing the sense of Congress that the Government of the Russian Federation should issue a clear and unambiguous statement of admission and condemnation of the illegal occupation and annexation by the Soviet Union from 1940 to 1991 of the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. [Click for more details]

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