The Three Sea Initiative (TSI) launched in 2016 is a regional economic cooperation platform established with the aim of bridging the existing connectivity gaps in the energy, transport infrastructure and digital communication sectors, reinforcing EU-level cohesion and the transatlantic bond. Previous Three Seas Initiative Summits took place in Croatia (2016), Poland (2017), Romania (2018), Slovenia (2019) and Estonia (2020); the sixth TSI Summit is to take place in Bulgaria on 8–9 July 2021.
On 12 August at the Riga Forest Cemetery in honour of the memory of Gustavs Zemgals President of Latvia Egils Levits, the highest officials of Latvia and Zemgals’ great-grandson MÄrtiņš Andersons together with his family laid flowers at the grave of the statesman.
The informal seminar of the Latvian and Lithuanian Foreign Ministries is being held for the fifth time. The event is hosted on a rotational basis in Latvia and Lithuania.