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.

• Chas prints an interview with the President of Latvia Andris Berzins
• President Andris Berzins met with representatives of various Latvian WWII veterans’ organisations

Chas prints an interview with the President of Latvia Andris Berzins. The President states he will do everything in order to unite the split society because the state’s future can be only common for all residents. The President believes it was possible to establish Latvia as independent state in 1918 because representatives of various nations were able to find common language and to see the issues which united them. The President believes that same issues are topical nowadays because if Latvian residents do not unite they will disappear in the big world.

Latvijas Avize reports about a meeting of the President Andris Berzins with representatives of various Latvian WWII veterans’ organisations – those veterans who fought in the Red Army and in the German army. The aim of the meeting was to continue the initiative of the Good Will Manifesto promoting consolidation of the society and further to gather WWII veterans together in commemoration event in Riga fraternal cemetery on 8 May. According to the President, the conversation with the veterans was conducted in a very humane atmosphere and it was only the beginning and conversations will continue.