Latvian Prime Minister Address

Prime Minister of Latvia, Ivars Godmanis, is the former Vice President of the Popular Front of Latvia. He was one of the main political strategists behind the popular front's succession to power in May 1990, when the Soviet Socialist Republic of Latvia was restored to its status as the sovereign Republic of Latvia. Mr. Gomanis is in the United States to outline the program and expectations for Latvia's new democratic government. The prime minister spoke of Latvia's formation of new economic relationships with the East and the West. Mr. Godmanis also described his position and contacts within Latvia and the Russian government, and overviewed the wave of democratization and decentralization that is occurring in the Baltic States, the Soviet Union and Latvia.