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• Chas interviews Boris Cilevics on PACEs last session

Chas published interview with Boriss Cilevics, Latvia’s representative at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). During the PACE’s last session, the Council of Europe’s human rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg held a meeting with Latvian delegation in order to discuss the slow rate of naturalization and the problem of mass statelessness. According to Boriss Cilevics, the Commissioner will visit Latvia this autumn in order to see the situation himself and to convince Latvian government to grant citizenship to all newborns in Latvia, to simplify naturalization and to grant non-citizens voting rights in municipal elections. PACE’s resolution on Combating anti-Semitism in Europe is relevant to Latvia, as it cited developments in the Baltic states, and called for all CoE countries to not endorse the construction of monuments or holding of ceremonies celebrating those guilty of genocide or crimes against humanity during the World War II.

Chas published interview with Boriss Cilevics, Latvias representative at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). During the PACEs last session, the Council of Europes human rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg held a meeting with Latvian delegation in order to discuss the slow rate of naturalization and the problem of mass statelessness. According to Boriss Cilevics, the Commissioner will visit Latvia this autumn in order to see the situation himself and to convince Latvian government to grant citizenship to all newborns in Latvia, to simplify naturalization and to grant non-citizens voting rights in municipal elections. PACEs resolution on Combating anti-Semitism in Europe is relevant to Latvia, as it cited developments in the Baltic states, and called for all CoE countries to not endorse the construction of monuments or holding of ceremonies celebrating those guilty of genocide or crimes against humanity during the World War II.