The National Security Council reviewed the application of the NAF Commander for pre-term retirement

Today, October 25, the National Security Council (NSC) reviewed a number of topical issues related to national security. The NDP also took note of the application of the National Armed Forces (NAF) Commander, Lieutenant General Raimonds Graube addressed to President of Latvia Raimonds Vējonis, where the NAF Commander appealed to retire him from the office before the end of the term.

 

According to Article 14 of the National Armed Forces Law, the NAF Commander is confirmed in office for four years and is dismissed by the Saeima upon the motion of the President of Latvia.

 

R. Graube will continue to hold the post of the NAF Commander until the Saeima will approve the next NAF Commander.

 

R. Graube has been the NAF Commander from 1999 to 2003 and from 2010 to 2014, when the Saeima confirmed him for the next term upon the motion of the President of Latvia. Mandate of R. Graube expires in 2018.

 

The NAF Commander has previously worked for the Ministry of Defence, and he has been the NAF Military Representative to NATO. R. Graube began his service in the NAF as a Deputy Commander of the Guard Company of the National Guard Headquarters Battalion in 1991.