| The Kyiv Post, 8 February 2007 The Latvian Parliament gave the government the green light to conclude a long-awaited border treaty with Russia. Latvia would be the second Baltic country previously occupied by the Soviet Union to sign such a treaty with Moscow. The border pact was expected to be signed later this month. The treaty, negotiated in 1997, has been in limbo mainly due to sour relations between Moscow and Riga and opposition from some Latvians who felt it should address a swath of land seized by the Soviet Union after World War II. At the start of debate last week, President Vaira Vike-Freiberga told lawmakers that Latvia would be behaving irresponsibly as a member of the European Union and NATO if it began making territorial claims against Russia.
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