Integration monitor is a daily Latvian press digest on ethnic minority and society integration issues. The Monitor reviews the biggest Latvian dailies: Diena, Latvijas Avize, Neatkariga (in Latvian language), Vesti Segodnya (in Russian language). In specific cases other information sources are used. Latvian Centre for Human Rights is not responsible for information published by the media.

• Cabinet of Ministers discusses the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities today
• State Security Police: the MP Kirsteins statements do not incite national hatred

Today the Cabinet of Ministers holds discussions on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. The union For Human Rights in the United Latvia organises a picket near the building of the Cabinet of Ministers demanding to ratify the Convention without any reservations.

Today the Cabinet of Ministers holds discussions on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. The union For Human Rights in the United Latvia organises a picket near the building of the Cabinet of Ministers demanding to ratify the Convention without any reservations. Chas prints a big interview with the head of the Subcommittee on Minority Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and Latvian MP Boriss Cilevics about possible consequences of ratification. Latvijas Avize, Chas, Vesti Segodnya, Telegraf

Yesterday the State Security Police responded to the application of the Russian newspaper

Yesterday the State Security Police responded to the application of the Russian newspaper Chas, which questioned whether several statements of MP Aleksandrs Kirsteins (the Peoples Party) call to national hatred. In its response the Police states that the Kirsteins' statements are not intentional thus cannot be classified as incitements to national hatred. Chas