On Sunday, 6 August, Speaker Solvita Āboltiņa sent a letter of condolence to John Boehner, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, in relation to the helicopter crash in Afghanistan that took the lives of 38 persons, mainly the troops of the U.S. special forces.

On behalf of the parliament of Latvia, Speaker Āboltiņa expressed most heartfelt condolences and moral support to the American people and relatives of the victims.

Saeima Press service