United Nations
A/RES/68/172
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 January 2014
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 69 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2013
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/68/456/Add.2)]
68/172. Effective promotion of the Declaration on the Rights
of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious
and Linguistic Minorities
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 47/135 of 18 December 1992, by which it adopted the
Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and
Linguistic Minorities annexed to that resolution, and bearing in mind article 27 of
the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1 as well as other relevant
existing international standards and national legislation,
Recalling also its subsequent resolutions on the effective promotion of the
Declaration, as well as Human Rights Council resolutions 6/15 of 28 September
2007 2 and 19/23 of 23 March 2012, 3 by which the Council established and renewed
the mandate of the Forum on Minority Issues, 16/6 of 24 March 2011 on the
mandate of the Independent Expert on minority issues, 4 18/3 of 29 September 2011
on the panel to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the
Declaration 5 and 22/4 of 21 March 2013 on the rights of persons belonging to
national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, 6
Affirming that the promotion and protection of the rights of persons belonging
to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities and dialogue between these
minorities and the rest of society, as well as the constructive and inclusive
development of practices and institutional arrangements to accommodate diversity
within societies, contribute to political and social stability and the prevention and
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1
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/63/53), chap. I,
sect. A.
3
Ibid., Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53 and corrigendum (A/67/53 and Corr.1), chap. III, sect. A.
4
Ibid., Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/66/53), chap. II, sect. A.
5
Ibid., Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum (A/66/53/Add.1 and Corr.1), chap. II.
6
Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/68/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
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