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Activity programmes

MODUK sponsors a global Defence Relations Activity Programme (DRAP) with its allies and partners, from which is developed a Country Activity Programme, an event-by-event schedule of bilateral defence activities. These activities are conducted both within and outside Latvia. Some are developed into multilateral activities for the benefit of all three Baltic States. In Latvia bilateral and multilateral activities are currently broadly categorised into three major DRAP projects:

  • Developing capacity to deploy on NATO, EU and international missions with UK and allies
  • Advice and training to support defence reform
  • Assistance to counter-terrorist (CT) strategy and (CT) capacity building.
The DRAP is underpinned by a series of memoranda of understanding and implementing arrangements between UK and Latvia. These agreements are developed in a year between MODUK and the Latvian Ministry of Defence (MOD) and published annually or around 1 April. The content depends on three main factors: demand from Latvia, UK's capacity to deliver and available funding. The list is not exhaustive but in recent years DRAPs have included activities such as:

  • Pre-mission training in support of operational deployments.
  • Leadership training and education courses, including attendance at the Royal College of Defence Studies, the Joint Services Command&Staff College, the Junior Staff Officers' Course (JSOC) in Slovakia and the British Military and Advisory Training Team (BMATT) in the Czech Republic
  • Provision of a Special Defence Advisor
  • English language training
  • Participation and material support to NATO Baltic Air Policing
  • Defence procurement training
  • Defence diplomacy training
  • Personnel management training
  • Specialist training in vessel boarding search and seizure, media operations and psychological operations
  • Defence business learning courses
  • International humanitarian law training
National Defence Reserve Forces (NDRF or KASP) and Territorial Army (TA) exchange exercises.

  • Advisory and scoping visits between MODUK and MOD
  • Ships visits
  • Participation by UK forces in Latvian sponsored exercises both on land and at sea
  • Participation in military competitions
  • Reciprocal exchanges between Army Cadet Forces and Rifleman's Union Cadets



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