MOTION FOR AN ORDER on the implementation of Council of Europe standards and principles concerning the protection of national minorities

6 October 1995

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MOTION FOR AN ORDER on the implementation of Council of Europe standards and principles concerning the protection of national minorities

presented by Mr BÁRSONY, Hungary, SOC and others

This motion has not been discussed in the Assembly and commits only the members who have signed it

The Assembly,

Having regard to:

- the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages;

- Assembly Recommendation 1201 (1993) on an additional protocol on the rights of national minorities to the European Convention on Human Rights;

- the Vienna Declaration;

- the Framework Convention for the Protection of Minorities;

- Recommendation 1255 (1995) on the protection of the rights of national minorities,

Instructs its Political Affairs Committee to evaluate the state of implementation, in all member states of the Council of Europe, of the above-mentioned texts, and to report to the Assembly in due course.

Signed:

Bársony, Hungary, SOC

Gjellerod, Denmark, SOC

Kelchtermans, Belgium, EPP

* SOC : Socialist Group

EPP : Group of the European People's Party