Integration monitor is a daily Latvian press digest on ethnic minority and society integration issues. The Monitor reviews the biggest Latvian dailies: Diena, Latvijas Avize, Neatkariga (in Latvian language), Vesti Segodnya (in Russian language). In specific cases other information sources are used. Latvian Centre for Human Rights is not responsible for information published by the media.

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In Dienas editorial political commentator A.Rodins writes about the Vieda Publishing House Director A.Gardas letter to EU Commissioner G.Verheugen. A.Rodin states that Garda had no basis to claim that Latvia could face a civil war if it would not be decolorized because to say such a thing you need to receive a legitimate authorization from tens, even hundreds of thousands of Latvians. A.Rodin also writes that the works of the participants of this contest that have been assembled in a book according to the opinion of Latvian judicial institutions and the OSCE Mission to Latvia are not to be considered as inciting inter-ethnic hated. Nevertheless, with no doubt, they are provocative and stimulating imitation."

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The newspaper Lauku Avize published the full text of Gardas letter to the Commissioner G.Verheugen.

Chinese Communist party delegation headed by party central committee international section deputy head will arrive in Latvia Wednesday on a three day visit here to meet Latvian lawmakers and Foreign Ministry deputy state secretary. The Latvian parliament board Monday approved the visit of the delegation and the spending estimate. The Chinese delegation, headed by Tsai Wu, during the three day visit that will last July 25-28 is scheduled to meet Latvian-Chinese parliamentary cooperation group and members of the parliament factions as well as Foreign Ministry deputy state secretary Martins Virsis. Latvian parliament Chinese cooperation group head Olegs Denisovs told BNS factions of the leftist union For Human Rights in United Latvia and Social Democrats are planning to have separate meetings with six delegation members.

Chinese Communist party delegation headed by party central committee international section deputy head will arrive in Latvia Wednesday on a three day visit here to meet Latvian lawmakers and Foreign Ministry deputy state secretary. The Latvian parliament board Monday approved the visit of the delegation and the spending estimate. The Chinese delegation, headed by Tsai Wu, during the three day visit that will last July 25-28 is scheduled to meet Latvian-Chinese parliamentary cooperation group and members of the parliament factions as well as Foreign Ministry deputy state secretary Martins Virsis. Latvian parliament Chinese cooperation group head Olegs Denisovs told BNS factions of the leftist union For Human Rights in United Latvia and Social Democrats are planning to have separate meetings with six delegation members. BNS, Vesti Segodnya

Latvian president Monday presented credentials to three Latvian ambassadors - to the Czech Republic, Sweden and Cyprus, president's press office reported.

Latvian president Monday presented credentials to three Latvian ambassadors - to the Czech Republic, Sweden and Cyprus, president's press office reported. BNS, Diena, Neatkariga

Western Latvian town Liepaja based organization of Barkhashovtsi, calling themselves as Russian National Unity in Latvia, Monday by post filed a claim with a Riga city court against the Company Register (CR) which has for two times declined to register the organization, organization leader said. Yevgeny Osipov said the organization believes the CR does not have legal grounds to deny registration of the organization under the name Russian National Unity in Latvia.

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A United States Jewish organization highly appreciates position of Latvian and Estonian foreign ministers to give appropriate assessment of the Holocaust in an international anti-racism conference later this year in South Africa. The organization called Advocates on behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States and Eurasia made the statement in a letter to Latvian Foreign Minister Indulis Berzins, Foreign Ministry press office reported. The conference against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance will take place Aug. 31-Sept. 7. BNS