Chief of the State Border Guard Guntis Pujāts, and Commander of the National Armed Forces Lieutenant General Kaspars Pudāns accompanied the head of state on his visit to sections of the Latvian-Belarusian border under the jurisdiction of the Daugavpils Department of the State Border Guard.

As has become his habit, President Rinkēvičs donned military fatigues and hiking boots for the day in place of his usual suit and tie.

The senior officials were to "familiarize t...