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8 October 2001

Rights of national minorities

Written Question No. 400 to the Committee of Ministers

by Mr Nagy

      Mr Nagy,

      Noting that there is a close connection between the stability of the rule of law and respect for the rights of national minorities;

      Recalling that the Parliamentary Assembly in the last decade has made an important contribution to developing legal standards concerning the protection of national minorities and that an important new step was made in this respect in 2001 with the adoption of Recommendation 1492,

      To ask the Committee of Ministers,

      What its evaluation is of the effectiveness of the legal instruments already in use, and how it plans to take forward the implementation of Recommendation 1492.

Signed:

Nagy, Hungary, EPP/CD¹

¹ EPP/CD: European People's Party