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.

• Ainars Latkovskis: national minorities not only have rights, but also duties
• Political party Motherland asks not to register party All for Latvia
• Boris Cilevich about the PACEs post-monitoring dialog with Latvia

The Special Assignments Minister for Social Integration Ainars Latkovskis in an interview with

The Special Assignments Minister for Social Integration Ainars Latkovskis in an interview with Latvijas Avize stated that Latvias integration policy is based on several key principles, including that national minorities not only have rights, but also obligations towards the country they live. There will be no dialogue with those, who believe that Latvia is not an independent country, said Latkovskis

The political party Motherland asked the Minister of Justice Solvita Aboltina and the Enterprise Register not to register the newly established party “All for Latvia”, because of its radical views. “Motherland” is convinced that if the party “All for Latvia” is elected in the Parliament, it would be disobedient to the Constitution of Latvia, democratic principles and human rights. The party Concord Center stated that the position of “All for Latvia” is in breach with human rights and moral values. “Provocations of radicals can only stimulate ethnic hatred, and it would not solve anybody’s problems in Latvia,” stated the Concord Center.

The political party Motherland asked the Minister of Justice Solvita Aboltina and the Enterprise Register not to register the newly established party All for Latvia, because of its radical views. Motherland is convinced that if the party All for Latvia is elected in the Parliament, it would be disobedient to the Constitution of Latvia, democratic principles and human rights. The party Concord Center stated that the position of All for Latvia is in breach with human rights and moral values. Provocations of radicals can only stimulate ethnic hatred, and it would not solve anybodys problems in Latvia, stated the Concord Center. Latvijas Avize

MP Boris Cilevich (the Concord Center) in an interview with

MP Boris Cilevich (the Concord Center) in an interview with Chas stated that the PACEs (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) post-monitoring dialog with Latvia on the situation of ethnic minorities in the country should not be interpreted as a shame, but help. Latvia is a beneficiary in this situation. But colleagues from right-wing parties consider it as an offence… and arena for propagandistic war, said Boris Cilevich.