Cotton stands by NATO commitment in meeting with Latvian president

Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton met with Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis on Friday to reaffirm the United States’ commitment both to Latvia and to participating in NATO.

“The meeting primarily focused on the NATO alliance and the United States’s bilateral military commitments to Latvia,” according a statement from Cotton’s office. The meeting “reaffirmed the ironclad mutual defense covenant of NATO,” calling it “vital” in light of “renewed Russian belligerence and unpredictability.”