MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's foreign minister has called in the Latvian ambassador for consultations after the prime minister of the Baltic state made statements about Catalan independence, Spain's foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday.
Hundreds of thousands of Catalans formed a 400-km (250-mile) human chain on Wednesday, demanding a referendum on breaking away from Spain. The chain was inspired by a 1989 demonstration in the Baltics calling for independence from the Soviet Union.
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