During the autumn session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg, France, Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševica, Deputy Speaker of the Saeima and Head of the Latvian delegation to PACE, called for seizing Russian assets to support Ukraine.

On Thursday, 12 October, in response to the large-scale coordinated attack on Israel by the terrorist organisation Hamas, the Saeima adopted a statement on support for the State of Israel.

On Thursday, 12 October, at an event held at the Jewish Community Centre to show solidarity with the State of Israel, Speaker of the Saeima Daiga Mieriņa addressed the attendees to express heartfelt support: "Our hearts and minds are with you at this time."

On Wednesday, 11 October, the heads of the delegations to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) from the Baltic and Nordic (NB8) countries adopted a statement, strongly condemning the inacceptable and inhumane attacks by Hamas on Israel and the Israeli people and deeply deploring the loss of innocent lives on both sides.

"Russia's abduction of children is a combination of genocide and russification policies aimed at erasing Ukraine's national identity and culture", said Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševica, Deputy Speaker of the Saeima and Head of the Latvian Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), at the opening of the event Uprooted Children: How the Russian Federation Deports Ukrainian Children and Erases their National Identity, organised jointly by the Latvian and Ukrainian delegations in Strasbourg on Tuesday, 10 October.

In Copenhagen, the Latvian delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA) met with Canadian MPs to discuss the security situation in Europe and globally, current challenges and the most common threats. Currently, Raimonds Bergmanis, Head of the Latvian delegation to the NATO PA, and permanent representatives Irma Kalniņa and Aleksandrs Kiršteins are in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, to participate in the NATO PA autumn session.

In solidarity with the people of Israel and to honour the victims of last weekend’s terrorist attack, the flag of the State of Israel was raised at the main building of the Saeima on Monday, 9 October.

The Saeima Foreign Affairs Committee strongly and categorically condemns the terrorist attacks on Israel by Hamas. Such indiscriminate violence and targeting of civilians is despicably cruel and barbaric; it sows unjustifiable inhuman destruction. It is terrorism at its most horrific.

On Friday, 6 October, having met at the Saeima, an international jury evaluated candidates for the Baltic Assembly (BA) Prize and decided to award this year's prize to Dr. Art. Arnolds Laimonis Klotiņš for his monographs “Music in Post-war Stalinism: Latvian Music Life and Creativity 1944–1953” and “Music in Exodus: Latvian Music Life and Creativity in Post-war Europe 1944–1951”.

We must not lose a single day or even a minute in hesitation to support Ukraine. As people of the Baltic States, we understand this well, and we are the advocates convincing our allies to take similar action. We must also send the message to our people that we are unwavering and tireless, said Daiga Mieriņa, Speaker of the Saeima, on Friday, 6 October, to her Lithuanian colleagues during a working visit to the country’s capital Vilnius.