quarta-feira, 9 de dezembro de 2009

atitude acertada



Zatlers: stop using word ‘occupier’
RIGA — Latvian President Valdis Zatlers has said that it is time to stop using the word “occupier” in relation to the country’s minority Russian population and that the Baltic state didn’t need integration, but a sense of togetherness in order to fully develop.

“I want to stress that the occupation of Latvia ended when the last Soviet soldier left. Therefore we need to agree that the word ‘occupier’ is no longer used in Latvia,” Zatlers said while answering questions from the readers of the Russian-language daily newspaper Telegraf.

“Occupier” is a favored epithet that Latvians hurl at the ethnic Russian minority. The latest instance occurred in September when Saeima member Juris Dobelis, a member of the nationalist For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK union, lashed out at Harmony Center lawmaker Alexander Golubov.

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