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Coalition formulates Latvia's negative position on accepting additional refugees

BC, Riga, 09.02.2016.Print version
Members of the ruling coalition have formulated Latvia's negative position on accepting additional numbers of asylum seekers, as Prime Minister Maris Kucinskis (Greens/Farmers) told reporters after the coalition's meeting yesterday, cites LETA.

As reported, would-be coalition partners had differing opinions on how to formulate Latvia's negative attitude to taking in additional refugees. The disagreements were not about the content of the text but about its wording.

 

"I am against categorical wording or strict statements that we will not be doing what nobody offers us to do," Kucinskis told journalists previously. He indicated that he does not want the government declaration to elaborate on hypothetical situations and that the coalition partners are unanimously against the admission of more refugees than Latvia has already promised to admit, but that the disagreements are about how to say it in the declaration.






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