Selvom spørgsmålet vedrørende ikke-statsborgere ofte ligestilles med problemet omkring [[statsløs]]e,<ref name=osce2004>[http://www.oscepa.org/images/stories/documents/declarations/2004_-_edinburgh_declaration_-_english.2314.pdf see para. 16 of the Resolution on national minorities] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924062023/http://www.oscepa.org/images/stories/documents/declarations/2004_-_edinburgh_declaration_-_english.2314.pdf |date=24. september 2015 }} OSCE PA, 2004</ref><ref name=AmnInt>{{Cite web |url=http://report2009.amnesty.org/en/regions/europe-central-asia/latvia |title=Amnesty International 2009 Report |access-date=19. februar 2012 |archive-date=10. juni 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090610075623/http://report2009.amnesty.org/en/regions/europe-central-asia/latvia |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=CoECfHR>[https://archive.today/20121212214128/www.coe.int/t/commissioner/Viewpoints/080609_en.asp No one should have to be stateless in today’s Europe]</ref><ref name=UNSR>[http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/7session/A.HRC.7.19.Add.3.doc Report on mission to Latvia (2008)], UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance — see Para. 30 and 88</ref> så siger andre kilder, at ikke-statsborgeres status i både Letland og [[Estland]] er unik og ikke har eksisteret tidligere i [[international jura]].<ref name=EUNet>Synthesis Report: Conclusions and Recommendations on the Situation of Fundamental Rights in the European Union and its Member States in 2003, 4 February 2004, p. 90.</ref>
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