Foreign Ministry counted our people abroad: Riga discovered that everyone in Liepāja is at home
While the Middle East burns, Latvia's diplomats are trying to figure out where all our people went and whether they need help.
The Foreign Ministry announced that it currently has no plans for special flights to bring back Latvian citizens from the Middle East. Turns out, they first decided to count how many of our people are actually there.
The statistics are surprising: 6,383 Latvian citizens live in Israel, but only 13 in Bahrain. As one Liepāja diplomat commented: "Our Karosta alone is bigger than Bahrain, but only 13 people there! They probably don't know what they're missing." He also added that there are more people at Liepāja's Saturday market than in all the Persian Gulf states combined.
Particularly interesting is that only 11 people registered short-term trips to Israel in the consular registry. The rest apparently forgot to register or decided that Riga's bureaucracy is more complicated than the Middle East.
The ministry sent out informational emails with "recommendations for emergency situations." Liepāja residents received this news with humor: "We have an emergency situation with the tram every day, but we never send emails," laughs someone at a local café. "Maybe we should also set up a consular registry for Karosta?"
While the Middle East tries to resolve its conflicts, everything is peaceful in Liepāja. The only thing burning here right now is the new café on Peldu Street, which once again makes better hot bread than any place in Riga.
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