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• Music concert held as an opening event to School Youth Song and Dance Festival celebrated cultural heritage of various Latvia’s ethnicities and patriotism
• The government agreed to the admission of 250 refugees during two years 

Diena reports that the spiritual music concert held on 5 July as an opening event to the XI Latvian School Youth Song and Dance Festival celebrated cultural heritage of various Latvia’s ethnicities and patriotism. Besides Latvian, the concert participants (mainly the pupils of music schools) sang songs in Latgalian, Russian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Roma, Estonian, Jewish, Polish and Livonian. The Festival takes place in Riga from 6 to 12 July. 

On Monday the government agreed to admit the re-distribution of 250 refugees to Latvia during two-year period. Representatives of two ruling parties “Unity” and the “Union of Greens and Farmers” agreed to the proposal, while the third party – “National Union” rejected the proposal. The Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma emphasised that this is a “one-time-only” admission and that Latvia’s contribution to the EU solidarity will also be realised through assistance to protection of the borders and resolution of problems in the source countries. Diena, Latvijas Avize, Neatkariga, Vesti Segodnya