Fate of the Latvian-Russian border treaty apparently sealed

Latvia's constitutional court has pronounced the border treaty with Russia constitutional even though this means the country will lose territory to Russia. Aivard Ozolins expresses his relief: "The debate about whether the border treaty is in accordance with the basic law will now be supplanted by a debate over this ruling. But this won't affect the treaty itself, so we can now hope it will be ratified by the end of the year. This will finally draw a line under the ten-year struggle over the ratification: Latvia and Russia drew up the text back in 1997. At last this tiresome matter will disappear from the agenda of bilateral relations and relations between the EU and Russia."

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