STRASBOURG (BNS) – Latvia should not expect to be freed from Council of Europe monitoring until it ratifies a convention on protection of ethnic minorities that it signed four years ago, said Terry Davis, a British representative to the council."This framework was signed four years ago. Why does it take such a long time to ratify," asked Davis at last week's session in Strasbourg. "That is a question that should be asked of Latvia, not me."Davis said Latvia has made progress, and praised the Parliament's recent decision to abolish the death penalty. But he noted that monitoring could not be...
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