Latvia’s President hands out the first media credentials

Photos by Anda Kukemilka  

Latvia’s President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga officially opened the NATO Riga Summit Media Accreditation Center on November 23 by handing out the first three media accreditation cards.

The President chose three cards at random and produced a truly democratic result - a newspaper journalist, a radio journalist and a TV cameraman. The President used this event to get a firsthand look at the Main Summit Venue at the Latvian Olympic Center, and then inaugurated  the Press Theatre with its first  press conference – a few short remarks about next week’s big event.

Photographs from the official opening of the Media Accreditation center and the President’s visit to the Main Summit Venue can be found on www.rigasummit.lv under the section Media.