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Experts question, discuss racial intolerance

Feb 15, 2006
By Elizabeth Celms

RIGA - Experts and politicians took a step back this week to look at the country’s increasingly acute problem of prejudice against minority groups, with Foreign Minister Artis Pabriks going so far as to say that Latvians needed to get “vaccinated” against racism and intolerance.Discussion on the issue took place at a roundtable organized by the U.S. Embassy in connection with American Black History Month. Politicians, NGO representatives and minority group leaders took part in the forum. â ...

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