‘Throughout your professional career, you have displayed admirable dedication to highest professional and ethical standards, which has been recognised on a number of occasions. Your name will forever remain in the history of Latvia as the first female premier who successfully led our country through the first presidency of Latvia in the Council of the EU. But it is your Latvianness and spirit of loyalty and tireless dedication to making Latvia better that stands above all these achievements,’ says the Certificate of Merit signed by Egils Levits.
Special ceremony for Mrs Straujuma will take place when virus restrictions are lifted.