Naturalisation in Latvia?

Date: Wed, 25 Jun 97 19:42:28 -0500
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Subject: Naturalisation in Latvia?

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naturalisation in latvia?

Could someone explain to me the discrepancy in naturalisation figures for
Latvia since the introduction of the 1994 citizenship law?

The Osce Commissioner for Minorities estimates that 4% of the 55.000
eligible people (2.200) have been naturalised.  Apparently, the Latvian
naturalisation bureau puts this figure at 10% of the 124.000 people eligible
(12.400). The Latvian committee on human rights whose 1996 report MINELRES
transmitted puts this figure at 3.000 people out of 170.000 eligible (1,7%).
Elsewhere, however I have read that there have been 125.000 naturalisations
in Latvia and that the % of non-citizens has fallen from 34% to 28%

All this is quite bewildering and self-contradictory. Can you help me?


Andre Liebich
Graduate Institute of International Studies
132 rue de Lausanne, CP 36
CH-1211 Geneva 21
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fax:    +41 22 738 29 04
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