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• The Jurmala City Council established the Committee on Integration Affairs and the Society Integration Department of the Welfare Board

The Jurmala City Council established the Committee on Integration Affairs and the Society Integration Department of the Welfare Board. Five deputies from the Union of Greens and Farmers and the Concord Centre will work in the new Committee. According to one of the new Committee’s members Boriss Donnikovs, working in the Committee he wants to promote consolidation of WWII war veterans who fought on the opposite sides, involving in the dialogue representatives of the nationalistic union and religious confessions. The Society Integration Department will work on strategic planning and elaboration of local legal provisions in integration field, coordinate voluntary work, support NGOs, ensure opportunities for state language learning, support ethnic minority initiatives, and etc. Diena