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Enhanced Standards for Travel Documents: a. The Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Latvia intends to issue travel documents through a central issuing authority that is subject to strict audit and accountability mechanisms under domestic law. The Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Latvia intends to notify the Department of Homeland Security without ungrounded delay about any findings of such audits that has or may have the potential to jeopardize the security of travel documents or issuance of such documents. The Participants intend to protect any information obtained as a result of such audits against any unauthorized disclosure. b. The Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Latvia, in cooperation with other competent authorities of the Republic of Latvia, intends to continue to issue travel documents that comply with ICAO requirements. c. The Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Latvia, in cooperation with other competent authorities of the Republic of Latvia, intends to issue travel documents that have unique, non-recurring identifying numbers affixed at the time of manufacture. d. The Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Latvia understands that, in the event that the Republic of Latvia is designated as a VWP country, only Latvian citizens in possession of electronic passports (i.e., machine readable passports with both a digitized photograph and an electronically readable chip containing designated travel document data) will be allowed to travel to the United States under the VWP.