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• Concord Centre disassociates itself from the racist statement about immigrants made by its member Janis Adamsons

 

The political party Concord Centre spread official statement in which it disassociates itself from the statement made by its member Janis Adamsons about immigrants. In an interview with a regional TV channel, Mr Adamsons said: “I always believed that we will find a common language with representatives of white race because of common mentality, we might have different views but we have similar scale of values. But if Muslims come here I do not know what will we do.”

The political party Concord Centre spread official statement in which it disassociates itself from the statement made by its member Janis Adamsons about immigrants. In an interview with a regional TV channel, Mr Adamsons said: I always believed that we will find a common language with representatives of white race because of common mentality, we might have different views but we have similar scale of values. But if Muslims come here I do not know what will we do. Vesti Segodnya