Edgars Rinkēvičs is a Latvian public official and politician serving as the 11th and current president of Latvia since July 2023. He previously served as the minister of foreign affairs of Latvia from 2011 to 2023, and head of the Chancery of the President of Latvia as state secretary of the Ministry of Defence, as well as a deputy of the Saeima.
Rinkēvičs in 2023
Rinkēvičs with Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Toshimitsu Motegi, 2 July 2021
Rinkēvičs with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, 7 March 2022
Rinkēvičs meets with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem, 20 November 2023
The president of Latvia is head of state and commander-in-chief of the National Armed Forces of the Republic of Latvia.
President of Latvia
Latvian president Čakste (left) meeting president of Finland Lauri Kristian Relander in 1922
Guntis Ulmanis speaking from the Saeima podium during the parliamentary foreign policy debates in 2014
President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga on 7 June 2006 after an address to a joint meeting of Congress held in her honor at the U.S. Capitol in Washington