VILNIUS, November 1. /TASS/. Latvia has taken over presidency in the UN Security Council for the first time in history, the Latvian foreign ministry said.

Latvia will be chairing all of the UN Security Council’s official and non-official meetings in November, it stated.

According to Latvia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Sanita Pavluta-Deslandes, the top priority objective of Latvia's foreign policy is to strengthen the republic's security, and the UN Security Council is a means to achieve this goal.