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COUNCIL OF EUROPE
COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS
Ministers Deputies
Decisions
CM/Del/Dec(2001)772 16 November 2001
772nd meeting, 14 November 2001
Decisions adopted
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http://cm.coe.int/stat/E/Decisions/2001/772/772_DELDEC.htm#P957_41326
Csango minority culture in Romania
Parliamentary Assembly Recommendation 1521 (2001)
(PA REC_1521 (2001), GR-C(2001)29 revised 2, GR-C(2001)CB13)
Decisions
The Deputies
1. adopted the following reply to Parliamentary Assembly
Recommendation 1521 (2001) on Csango minority culture in Romania:
"1. The Committee of Ministers has considered Parliamentary Assembly
Recommendation 1521 (2001) on Csango minority culture in Romania and
agrees with the Assembly that diversity of cultures and languages is a
valuable source of Europes richness and the original feature of its
cultural heritage.
2. In a wider context, the Committee of Ministers calls the attention
of the Assembly on the recommendation on "Safeguarding of Traditional
Culture and Folklore" adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on
15 November 1989. As concerns more particularly the Council of Europe,
the Committee of Ministers recalls the Campaign "Europe: a common
heritage" and refers further to the joint Council of Europe/European
Union initiative "European Year of Languages".
3. The Committee of Ministers takes note of paragraph 2 of
Recommendation 1521 but is not competent to pronounce itself on its
substance.
4. The Committee of Ministers would invite the interested scientific
community, including Romanian and Hungarian scholars, to make joint
research on the matter broadening the scope of ongoing studies, in the
spirit of the European Cultural Convention of the Council of Europe.
5. As regards paragraph 9 of the Recommendation, the Committee of
Ministers subscribes to recommendations i. and ii.
6. As regards paragraph 9 iii. of the Recommendation, the Committee of
Ministers trusts that the Holy See, in its regular contacts with the
local Church Authorities, as well as the governmental authorities of
the respective countries, will continue to follow the issues raised,
in as much as they may affect the religious life of the Csangos.
7. As regards recommendations vi. and vii., the Committee of Ministers
encourages the use of the Council of Europe Confidence-building
measures Programme.
8. The Committee of Ministers takes note of the significant progress
made in recent years in strengthening the legal and institutional
framework for the protection of national minorities, necessary to the
preservation, development and expression of the ethnic, cultural,
linguistic and religious identity of the minorities in Romania, thus
contributing to tolerance and understanding. Romania has acceded to
most of the international human rights protection instruments,
including a large number of Council of Europe conventions: the
European Convention on Human Rights, the Framework Convention for the
Protection of National Minorities, the European Charter of Local
Self-Government, the European Social Charter (revised), and also
signed the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in
1995. The Committee of Ministers has encouraged its member states
which have not yet done so, including Romania, to ratify and implement
the European Charter for regional or minority languages."
2. encouraged its member states which have not yet done so to sign
and/or ratify and implement the European Charter for Regional or
Minority Languages.
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