A/49/415/Add.1 English Page 12 55. Similarly, article 171 of the National Constitution establishes a special district with two senators elected by indigenous communities, and such senators must have held a position of traditional authority in their respective communities. 56. The Bonn/Copenhagen Declarations of 1955 contain, among others, provisions relating to ensuring rights of pertinent minorities to culture. In particular, it states that the cultivation of Danish or German customs and culture is open to anyone and may not be contested or verified ex officio. 57. It was pointed out that the significant contribution to the German minority’s cultural activities was the establishment of the library system. It ran the Deutsche Zentralbücherei (Central German Library), three mobile libraries, which visited villages and farms, and a total of 23 other village and school libraries - which were all linked in the Verband deutscher Büchereien (German Libraries Association). Members of the minority, as well as other Danish citizens, thus had access to a broad spectrum of German literature (about 190,000 volumes) and a wide range of tapes and cassettes. Apart from a legally established special grant from the Government of Denmark to the German minority’s libraries - Denmark otherwise paid no grants to private libraries funds were also received from Sonderjylland district and various municipalities. 58. In addition to a broad German cultural programme, including events and theatre trips to Germany, many associations that aimed at keeping up German traditions were available to the German minority in Denmark. The minority had set up several "German houses", which were financially self-supporting, to function as social and gastronomic centres. 59. The Danish minority’s principal cultural and ethnic organization was the Sydslesvigsk Forening (SSF, South Schleswig Association), with the Dansk Generalsekretariat (Danish Secretariat-General) in Flensburg. A further 26 associations, which fulfil widely differing functions, are attached to the SSF. There were also a number of independent organizations. All worked together in an advisory committee known as Det sydslesvigske Samrad (The South Schleswig Advisory Group), which coordinated Danish activities. 60. The Danish minority has its own central library, the Dansk Centralbibliotek for Sydslesvig (Central Danish Library for South Schleswig), which is the main local library for adults and children and includes two mobile libraries, a bibliography section and a range of audiovisual material. It has two main branches and 110 small branches in schools and kindergartens. It also maintains a research department and an archive. 61. Among the most important principles of the national policy of Ukraine was the realization of cultural autonomy. There were about 237 national-cultural societies in the Republic, which published 48 newspapers. For example, 10 newspapers were published in Hebrew, four in the Crimean Tatar, three in Polish, seven in Romanian and Moldavian, and one in the Bulgarian language. There are 30 Russian theatres, as well as 36 Ukrainian-Russian, one Crimean Tatar, one Hungarian, one Jewish and one Romanian theatre. /...