The statement is issued in the Saturday open letter of the heads of Russian-speakers' organizations to the Latvian authorities.
The newspaper Diena writes on Saturday that the Latvian police and Interior Minister Eriks Ekabson regarded this statement as "a kind of provocation".
Krists Leiskas, press secretary of the Latvian Interior Ministry, said in the Diena interview that the state and security police have no information that "whatever opposition to the police or other mass unrest are in being prepared".
"However, it is not ruled out that they are trying to instigate clashes in this way", he noted.
In his turn, Zane Moskalenoka, press officer of the Latvian state police, told the Diena newspaper that "the police are not going to meddle and instigate conflict situations and mass unrest". "The police will not use water cannons against children," she said. "Active police actions are expected only in an emergency," she added.
