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... Desiring to promote the realization of the principles contained
in the Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,
the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Racial Discrimination, the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, the Declaration on the Elimination
of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion
or Belief, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as
well as other relevant international instruments that have been
adopted at the universal or regional level and those concluded
between individual States Members of the United Nations, ...
... 1. States shall protect the existence and the national or
ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic identity of minorities
within their respective territories and shall encourage conditions
for the promotion of that identity. ...
... 1. Persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and
linguistic minorities (hereinafter referred to as persons belonging
to minorities) have the right to enjoy their own culture, to
profess and practise their own religion, and to use their own
language, in private and in public, freely and without interference
or any form of discrimination. ...
... 2. Persons belonging to minorities have the right to participate
effectively in cultural, religious, social, economic and public
life. ...
... 2. States shall take measures to create favourable conditions
to enable persons belonging to minorities to express their characteristics
and to develop their culture, language, religion, traditions
and customs, except where specific practices are in violation
of national law and contrary to international standards. ...
... 4. States should, where appropriate, take measures in the
field of education, in order to encourage knowledge of the history,
traditions, language and culture of the minorities existing within
their territory. Persons belonging to minorities should have
adequate opportunities to gain knowledge of the society as a
whole. ...