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• Member of the Sub-committee on Rights of Minorities of the PACE Boriss Cilevics criticizes the Minister of Culture Sarmite Elerte
• Book Sentenced by Nazism recently released in Latvia

Member of the Sub-committee on Rights of Minorities of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), MP Boriss Cilevics criticizes the Minister of Culture Sarmite Elerte for distortion of basic principles of the Framework Convention for National Minorities and disinformation of Latvian residents. Commenting recent statements made by the Minister about the implementation of norms of the Convention concerning ethnic minority languages in Latvia, Mr Cilevics says that the Minister does not understand the modern system of human rights protection. According to Mr Cilevics, conscientious implementation of the norms of the Framework Convention in many European countries which have only one state language helped to ensure civil peace and stability and to find optimal compromise between interests of the majority and linguistic minorities. According to Mr Cilevics, norms of the Convention have no relations with the status of official or state language.

Member of the Sub-committee on Rights of Minorities of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), MP Boriss Cilevics criticizes the Minister of Culture Sarmite Elerte for distortion of basic principles of the Framework Convention for National Minorities and disinformation of Latvian residents. Commenting recent statements made by the Minister about the implementation of norms of the Convention concerning ethnic minority languages in Latvia, Mr Cilevics says that the Minister does not understand the modern system of human rights protection. According to Mr Cilevics, conscientious implementation of the norms of the Framework Convention in many European countries which have only one state language helped to ensure civil peace and stability and to find optimal compromise between interests of the majority and linguistic minorities. According to Mr Cilevics, norms of the Convention have no relations with the status of official or state language. Chas

Chas and Vesti Segodnya reports about book Sentenced by Nazism recently released in Latvia. The book contains historical documents and witnesses accounts about Nazi crimes in Latvia and research on the concentration camp in Salaspils.