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• NGOs appeal to the European Commission and the Council of Europe regarding the problem of non-citizenship in Latvia

The Union of Citizens and Non-citizens sent an open letter to the European Commission (EC) asking to help Latvia with elaboration of a plan for solution of problem with large scale non-citizenship in Latvia. According to one of the authors of the letter Elizabete Krivcova, Latvia has promised the EC to solve the existing problem before becoming member of the European Union, however, did not fulfil its promises. Movement “For Equal Rights”, in its turn, appealed to the Council of Europe asking to respond to the decision of the Central Elections Committee of Latvia which refused to pass the draft law on granting Latvian citizenship to non-citizens for the second stage of the national referendum. Activists of the movement wait from the Council of Europe to elaborate clear objective rules on evaluation of the draft law proposed for the referendum. Chas, Vesti Segodnya