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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/50/180
28 February 1996
Fiftieth session
Agenda item 112 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/50/635/Add.2)]
50/180.
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, as well as its resolution 49/192 of
23 December 1994,
Conscious of the need effectively to promote and protect the rights of
persons belonging to minorities, as set out in the Declaration,
Taking note of Commission on Human Rights resolution 1995/24 of
3 March 1995 on the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic,
religious and linguistic minorities, 1/ in which the Commission, inter alia,
decided to authorize the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and
Protection of Minorities to establish, initially for a three-year period, an
inter-sessional working group consisting of five of its members, to meet each
year for five working days in order to promote the rights of persons belonging
to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities,
Taking note also of Economic and Social Council resolution 1995/31 of 25
July 1995, in which the Council authorized the establishment of the working
group,
1/
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1995,
Supplement No. 3 and corrigenda (E/1995/23 and Corr.1 and 2), chap. II, sect. A.
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