Situation of human rights in Albania.
- Author: UN Commission on Human Rights (45th sess. : 1989 : Geneva)
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Date:
8 March 1989
1989/69. Situation of human rights in Albania
The Commission on Human Rights, Recalling that the human rights situation in Albania has been under consideration by the Commission on Human Rights since 1984 under the confidential procedure governed by Economic and Social Council resolution 1503 (XLVIII) of 27 May 1970, Noting with regret that the exhaustive efforts to solicit the co-operation of the Government concerned under the procedure in question, including the efforts of the Secretary-General, have been in vain, and that for the second consecutive year the Government has failed to respond to the allegations transmitted to it by the Commission's Special Rapporteur on the implementation of the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, Bearing in mind that, in its resolution 1988/17 of 2 March 1988, the Commission on Human Rights, acting under paragraph 8 of Council resolution 1503 (XLVIII), decided to discontinue consideration of the human rights situation in Albania under the confidential procedure and to take up consideration of the matter under the public procedure provided for in Council resolution 1235 (XLII) of 6 June 1967, Bearing in mind Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities resolution 1988/15 of 1 September 1988,1. Reminds the Government of Albania of its obligation under the Charter of the United Nations to extend full co-operation to the Commission on Human Rights;
2. Calls upon the Government of Albania to provide information on the concrete manner in which constitutional and legal measures comply with the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to respond to the specific allegations transmitted to it by the Commission's Special Rapporteur on the implementation of the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief;
3. Requests the Secretary-General:
(a) To bring the present resolution to the attention of the Government of Albania and to invite it to provide the requested information and co-operation;
(b) To report to the Commission at its forty-sixth session on the results of his efforts in that regard;
4. Decides to continue its consideration of the situation of human rights in Albania at its forty-sixth session.
55th meeting8 March 1989
[Adopted by a roll-call vote of 23 to 3, with
13 abstentions. See chap. XII.]
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