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Dear MINELRES list members, 

Please find below the next list of additions and new links on MINELRES
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Boris


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Opinions adopted by the Advisory Committee of the Framework Convention
for the Protection of National Minorities and comments of the
governments: 

Opinion on the Czech Republic
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/minorities/Eng/FrameworkConvention/AdvisoryCommittee/Opinions/Czech%20Republic.htm

government's comments
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/minorities/Eng/FrameworkConvention/AdvisoryCommittee/Opinions/Czech.Comments.htm

Opinion on Romania
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/minorities/Eng/FrameworkConvention/AdvisoryCommittee/Opinions/Romania.htm

government's comments
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/minorities/Eng/FrameworkConvention/AdvisoryCommittee/Opinions/Romania.Comments.htm

Opinion on Croatia
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/minorities/Eng/FrameworkConvention/AdvisoryCommittee/Opinions/Croatia.htm

government's comments
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/minorities/Eng/FrameworkConvention/AdvisoryCommittee/Opinions/Croatia.Comments.htm

Opinion on Hungary 
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/minorities/Eng/FrameworkConvention/AdvisoryCommittee/Opinions/Hungary.htm

government's comments
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/minorities/Eng/FrameworkConvention/AdvisoryCommittee/Opinions/Hungary.Comments.htm

Opinion on Liechtenstein
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/minorities/Eng/FrameworkConvention/AdvisoryCommittee/Opinions/Liechtenstein.htm

government's comments
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/minorities/Eng/FrameworkConvention/AdvisoryCommittee/Opinions/Liechtenstein.Comments.htm

Opinion on Denmark
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/minorities/Eng/FrameworkConvention/AdvisoryCommittee/Opinions/Denmark.htm

government's comments
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/minorities/Eng/FrameworkConvention/AdvisoryCommittee/Opinions/Denmark.Comments.htm

Opinion on San Marino
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/minorities/Eng/FrameworkConvention/AdvisoryCommittee/Opinions/San%20Marino.htm

(no government's comments have been submitted)

Opinion on Malta
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/minorities/Eng/FrameworkConvention/AdvisoryCommittee/Opinions/Malta.htm

government's comments
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/minorities/Eng/FrameworkConvention/AdvisoryCommittee/Opinions/Malta.Comments.htm

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Resolutions adopted by the CoE Comittee of Ministers on implementation
of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities

Czech Republic
http://cm.coe.int/stat/E/Public/2002/adopted_texts/resCMN/2002xn2.htm

Croatia 
http://cm.coe.int/stat/E/Public/2002/adopted_texts/resCMN/2002xn1.htm

Slovakia
http://cm.coe.int/stat/E/Public/2001/adopted_texts/resCMN/2001xn5.htm

Hungary
http://cm.coe.int/stat/E/Public/2001/adopted_texts/resCMN/2001xn4.htm

Denmark
http://cm.coe.int/ta/res/resCMN/2001/2001xn2.htm

Finland
http://cm.coe.int/ta/res/resCMN/2001/2001xn3.htm

Liechtenstein
http://cm.coe.int/stat/E/Public/2001/adopted_texts/resCMN/2001xn6.htm

Malta
http://cm.coe.int/stat/E/Public/2001/adopted_texts/resCMN/2001xn7.htm

San Marino
http://cm.coe.int/stat/E/Public/2001/adopted_texts/resCMN/2001xn8.htm


Full list of the Comittee of Ministers' resolutions on national
minorities (CMN) adopted in 2001 
http://cm.coe.int/site2/ref/dynamic/resolutions_cmn.asp

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Reports submitted by state parties and NGOs pursuant to Article 25
para.1 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National
Minorities

Albania - state report
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/minorities/Eng/FrameworkConvention/StateReports/2001/albania/Albania.htm

Ireland - state report
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/minorities/Eng/FrameworkConvention/StateReports/2001/Ireland/Ireland.htm

Lithuania - - state report
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/minorities/Eng/FrameworkConvention/StateReports/2001/lithuania/Lithuania.htm

Switzerland - state report (English)
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/minorities/Eng/FrameworkConvention/StateReports/2001/switzerland/switzerland.htm

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- European Court of Human Rights: Case of Stankov and the United
Macedonian Organisation Ilinden v. Bulgaria, 2 October 2001

Press release issued by the Registrar 
http://www.riga.lv/minelres/coe/court/Stankov.htm

Full text of the judgment
http://www.riga.lv/minelres/coe/court/Stankov_judgment.htm

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PACE motions:

- Common standards for protecting the rights of national minorities.
Doc. 9259, 8 October 2001. Motion for a recommendation
http://stars.coe.fr/doc/doc01/edoc9259.htm

- Guaranteeing rights of Ukrainian national minorities. Doc. 9240, 27
September 2001. Motion for a recommendation
http://stars.coe.fr/doc/doc01/edoc9240.htm

PACE report:

- The propiska system applied to migrants, asylum seekers and refugees
in Council of Europe member states: effects and remedies. Doc. 9262, 2
October 2001. Report of PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and
Demography, Rapporteur: Mr Boriss Cilevics, Latvia, Socialist Group
http://stars.coe.fr/doc/doc01/edoc9262.htm

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- Monitoring the EU Accession Process: Minority Protection. Overview 
http://www.eumap.org/reports/content/10/001

Country reports: 

- Bulgaria
http://www.eumap.org/reports/content/10/100

- Estonia
http://www.eumap.org/reports/content/10/233

- Hungary
http://www.eumap.org/reports/content/10/348

- Latvia
http://www.eumap.org/reports/content/10/428

- Lithuania
http://www.eumap.org/reports/content/10/440

- Romania
http://www.eumap.org/reports/content/10/642

- Slovenia
http://www.eumap.org/reports/content/10/705

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- ECRI's Report on Latvia, March 1999 
http://www.riga.lv/minelres/count/latvia/Latvia_ECRI_1999.htm

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- UNESCO MOST Programme: Multi-Cultural and Multi-Ethnic Societies 
http://www.unesco.org/most/most1.htm

- Linguapax: an international project fostered by UNESCO to promote
the culture of peace through plurilingual education, the protection of
our linguistic heritage and advice to states in matters of linguistic
policy
http://www.linguapax.org/

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- National legal texts:

- Hungary
Act on Hungarians Living in Neighboring Countries, 2001 (English)
http://www.riga.lv/minelres/NationalLegislation/Hungary/Hungary_Compatriots_English.htm

- Romania
Law on Local Public Administration, 2001 (excerpts)
English:
http://www.riga.lv/minelres/NationalLegislation/Romania/Romania_LocAdm2001_excerpts_English.htm
Romanian:
http://www.riga.lv/minelres/NationalLegislation/Romania/Romania_LocAdm2001_excerpts_Romanian.htm

- List of decisions and resolutions of the Romanian Constitutional
Court on the problem of national minorities, 1992-1999. Compiled by
Veress Em�d with the grant of Ethnic Diversity Resource Center</A>
http://www.ius-publicum.8m.net/cc.htm

- Moldova
Law on Protection of National Minorities, 2001 
Russian
http://www.riga.lv/minelres/NationalLegislation/Moldova/Moldova_Minorities_Russian.htm
Moldovan
http://www.riga.lv/minelres/NationalLegislation/Moldova/Moldova_Minorities_Moldovan.htm

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Selected publications:

- Kristin Henrard. The Interrelationship between Individual Human
Rights, Minority Rights and the Right of Self-Determination and Its
Importance for the Adequate Protection of Linguistic Minorities. The
Globla Review of Ethnopolitics, Vol. I, no. 1, September 2001 (.pdf) 
http://www.ethnopolitics.org/volume_I/issue_1/henrard.pdf

- Luke Clements. An emerging consensus on the special needs of
minorities: the lessons of Chapman v. UK. Roma Rights, Nr 2-3, 2001
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr2-3_2001/legal_defence.shtml

- Insufficient: Governmental programmes for Roma in Slovenia, by
Tatjana Peric. Roma Rights 2/3, 2001
http://errc.org/rr_nr2-3_2001/field_report.shtml

- UNESCO MOST Journal on Multicultural Societies
http://www.unesco.org/most/jmshome.htm

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Minority specific and country specific sources

- Istochnik: Website established by a coalition of major educational
organisations of the USA, South Africa, Israel and Europe to promote
Jewish Identity in the FSU
http://www.istok.ru/english/flash.html

- Minority Web: Web Journal on Minority Issues in Georgia
http://minority.iatp.org.ge/

- Azerbaijan Human Rights Resource Center
http://www.rc-hro.iwarp.com/

- Crimean Tatar - Crimea - Ukraine. Information and analytical server
(in Ukrainian)
http://www.crimeatau.org.ua/

- Lithuanian Roma Gypsy Organization
http://www.roma.lt/

- Congress of Russian Communities in Crimea
http://kro-krim.narod.ru/

- Association for Support of Russian-Language Schools in Latvia
http://www.lashor.lv/

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