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LATVIA
1. Section 2 of the Immigration Law. Translation into English of the Immigration Law provided by the
Tulko anas un terminolo#ijas centrs (Translation and Terminology Centre), 2003.
2. http://www.pmlp.gov.lv/?_p=27&menu__id=23).
3. This includes, the Director of the Constitution Protection Bureau, the Chief of the State Police or Security
Police. In this case, the Border Guard shall be informed in writing.
4. Translation into English of the Immigration Law by the Tulko anas un terminolo#ijas centrs (Translation
and Terminology Centre), 2003.
5. IOM, Immigration Law and Human Rights in the Baltic States, p. 76.
6. Committee Against Torture, Thirty-first session 10-21 November 2003: Unedited Version of Consideration
of Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 19 of the Convention; CAT/C/CR/31/3 (Future),
20 November, www.ohchr.org/tbru/cat/latvia.pdf.
* UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and its Smuggling and Trafficking Protocols:
Latvia signed the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime on 13 December 2000, and
ratified the Convention on 7 December 2001. It signed the Trafficking Protocol on 10 December 2002, but
has not yet ratified the Protocol. Latvia also signed the Smuggling Protocol on 10 December 2002, and
ratified this Protocol on 23 April 2003.