Integration monitor
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.
Фев. 14, 2012
- Good Will Manifesto signed at the Presidential Palace
- NRA: the referendum is not decisive event and its outcome is known in advance
- Russian Ambassador: the referendum is an internal affair of Latvia
The president of the Republic of Latvia Andris Berzins, and a number of other prominent persons, have signed a Good Will Manifesto at the Presidential Palace yesterday. The Manifesto calls for reconciliation of different groups of society, love and respect for Latvia as common motherland. The document highlights the need to care about Latvias future and to value its unique history, ethnic Latvian traditions, cultural space and Latvian language, as well as to love and respect also other traditions and cultures existing in the country, people of all ethnic affiliations. The Manifesto, written by a Lutheran pastor, is open for signing for everyone. Chas, Diena, Latvijas Avize, NRA, Telegraf, Vesti Segodnya
NRA briefly interviewed several prominent persons about the upcoming referendum. The majority of the interviewed believe that the referendum is not a decisive event for the future of Latvia and that the results of the referendum are known in advance.
In an interview withIn an interview with Latvijas Avize, the Ambassador of Russia to Latvia Aleksander Veshnyakov has stated that it is up to Latvias citizens to evaluate the activities of various political parties and the upcoming referendum is an internal affair of Latvia.