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The document is already ready, said [Aigars Kalvitis], and talks are currently being held to set a date for it to be signed.

[Presenter] The Saeima [parliament] has approved the Cabinet of Ministers set up by Aigars [Aigars Kalvitis] with a convincing majority of votes. Seventy-five of the 100 Saeima deputies voted for the new government. Apart from the parties making up the government, it was also supported by the Union for the Fatherland and Freedom - LNNK, which remains in opposition. Kalvitis's governing coalition has four [right-wing] parties: [Kalvitis's own] People's Party, New Era, the First Party of Latvia and the alliance of the Greens and Farmers Union.

[Correspondent] Good day! After the talks with the TB-LNNK, [Aigars Kalvitis] said that both the TB-LNNK and the TP believed that JL should join the government. If one of the parties, JL or the TB- LNNK, refuses to join the government without the other, he has a plan how to involve both. But he is prepared to propose a new government for a Saeima [parliament] vote on Thursday [2 December]. Its composition will be known at 1100 [0900 gmt] tomorrow.

\"I now have to announce one important and fresh piece of news that the next government will be set up by [Aigars Kalvitis].

[Aigars Kalvitis]] Hello. Well, I think first of all what has to be discussed now with New Era, and what we have already discussed very carefully, in both official talks and unofficial talks, are the jobs to be done by the government; and then we have to come up with a specific list of jobs that have to be done in the next few months, in the next half-year and in the next two years, and these talks will make it clear what jobs New Era is prepared and not prepared to do. And I - at least the intuition I have - is that, considering the results of our talks, both the first time when we met in the early summer, and now, since the government fell, I think that, more or less, the jobs I will present to this government as tasks ought to be acceptable to them, evidently, because they haven't made any other special proposals to me.

Unity and its coalition partners may try to drive Harmony Centre into the hopeless opposition. During [Aigars Kalvitis]'s rule, in the same glass jar with no hope of parole, next to Harmony Centre there was the same [Valdis Dombrovskis] party. It is true that the politicians forming the incumbent government have not forgotten that the harrows that fell out of Kalvitis's hands are still there. Unity member New Era is aware that nonstandard situations require nonstandard action and already before the end of vote counting [its leader] Solvita Aboltina voiced a need to smooth relations with Harmony Centre. According to unofficial information, yesterday Valdis Dombrovskis discussed the position on today's talks with Harmony Centre with members of the Union of Greens and Farmers.

A number of Latvian government ministers also work as state representatives in various companies and organizations and in some instances they earn considerably more money from those jobs than they do from their ministerial jobs, a Latvian newspaper has said. According to the newspaper this raises questions as to the objectiveness of the decisions taken by such ministers. The following is the text of the article published in the Latvian newspaper Diena on 4 April: Three ministers - Transport Minister Anatolijs Gorbunovs, Environmental Protection and Regional Development Minister Vladimirs Makarovs, and Economics Minister Aigars Kalvitis - earned much more money from serving as members of the board at the Ventspils Free Port last year than they did from serving as government ministers. Each of them earned between 8,500 and 8,650 lats [more than 13,000 dollars] as ministers, while the Ventspils Free Port paid them more than two times more - 18,625 lats. Kalvitis received less from the port (10,504 lats) than his colleagues did, and the minister's press secretary says that this is because Kalvitis has been a member of the board for a shorter period of time. If the job at the Ventspils port provides a minister with more money than the job of being a minister does, then we can ask whether the representation of ministry interests at the port has not turned into the representation of the interests of the influential and rich transit business at the ministries and, by extension, in government.

Riga, 2 November: During his visit to Cyprus, Minister of Economics Aigars Kalvitis met with Cypriot Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism N.A.Rolandhis and Minister of Finance Takis Kliridhis in order to discuss opportunities for boosting bilateral cooperation. Kalvitis' press secretary Evita Timofejeva informed LETA that issues of possibilities of increasing bilateral trade volumes were discussed during the meeting between Rolandhis and Kalvitis. The volume of trade between Latvia and Cyprus is insignificant at this time; therefore officials discussed opportunities for facilitating business contacts by organizing exchange of business delegations.

Moscow, 14 June: \"If the interest does not wane among entrepreneurs, the Latvian government will always back and take part in boosting mutual economic cooperation between Latvia and Russia,\" Minister of Economy Aigars Kalvitis told the information agency Rosbalt yesterday while in Moscow.

Moscow, 14 June: \"If the interest does not wane among entrepreneurs, the Latvian government will always back and take part in boosting mutual economic cooperation between Latvia and Russia,\" Minister of Economy Aigars Kalvitis told the information agency Rosbalt yesterday while in Moscow.