In February, Andris Skele was implicated in a paedophile scandal that rocked Latvia.

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Earlier on Saturday another British boxer went out, with flyweight Khalid Yafai well beaten by Cuban Andris Hernadez Laffita.

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Andris Skele's government took power last July after the previous government was brought down in a dispute over fiscal policy.

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Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs admitted that the debate had been "emotional" but that it was "not helpful" for MEPs to accuse the Commission of inaction.

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One conductor receiving close scrutiny in Boston is the thirty-three-year-old Latvian maestro Andris Nelsons, who is presently the music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony, in England.

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Irina Bokova and Andris Piebalgs, European Commissioner for Development, discussed deepening cooperation on primary education and Africa, as the beginning of strengthened cooperation between the EU and UNESCO.

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Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs said the Moroccan authorities needed to abide by their UN obligations, and said the EU supported a "just, lasting and mutually acceptable solution" to the dispute.

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Furious deputies voted in a friendlier president, Andris Berzins.

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