A/78/195
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 August 2023
Original: English
Seventy-eighth session
Item 73 (b) of the provisional agenda*
Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights
questions, including alternative approaches for improving
the effective enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms
Minority issues**
Note by the Secretary-General
The Secretary-General has the honour to transmit to the General Assembly the
report of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Fernand de Varennes, in
accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/79.
* A/78/150.
** The present document was submitted late to the conference services without the explanation
required under paragraph 8 of General Assembly resolution 53/208 B.
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