 In early 2007, Levitin as Chairman of an Intergovernmental Commission negotiated the cooperation with Latvia.As a result, in spring 2007 Russia and Latvia finally signed the border agreement, which had long been a controversial issue.In December 2007, Levitin and Foreign Minister of Lithuania Petras Vaitiekūnas signed an agreement on navigation in Curonian Lagoon as well as inland waterways of Kaliningrad Oblast.