Rights of persons belonging to national, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities.

1991/61. Rights of Persons belonging to national. ethnic. religious and linguistic minorities

The Commission Human Rights, Recalling its decision taken on 8 February 1978 at its thirty-fourth session (E/1978/34, para. 297), to create an informal open-ended working group to draft a declaration on the rights of persons belonging to national, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, as well as its subsequent resolutions on the subject, Considering that the United Nations has an important role to play regarding the protection of minorities, Bearing in mind the work done so far within the United Nations system on promoting and protecting the rights of persons belonging to national, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, Recognizing the need to ensure even more effective implementation of international instruments with regard to the rights of persons belonging to national, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, Bearing in mind General Assembly decision 45/434 of 18 December 1990, in which the Assembly decided to encourage the Commission on Human Rights to complete the final text of the draft declaration as soon as possible and to transmit it to the General Assembly through the Economic and Social Council,

1. Takes note with satisfaction of the report of the open-ended working group set up by the Commission to consider the drafting of a declaration on the rights of persons belonging to national, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities (E/CN.4/1991/53) and, in particular, of the progress made by the working group in the second reading of the draft declaration;

2. Expresses the hope that the second reading of the draft declaration will be completed as soon as possible;

3. Decides to consider the question again at its forty-eighth session;

4. Recommends the following draft resolution to the Economic and Social Council for adoption:

[For the text, see chap. I, sect. A, draft resolution V.]

53rd meeting
6 March 1991
[Adopted without a vote. See chap. XX.]