A/49/415/Add.1 English Page 7 28. An extensive political and legal basis in the field of inter-ethnic relations has been laid down in Ukraine. Among major legislative acts on this issue, the Law of Ukraine on National Minorities, the Law on Refugees and the Law on Migration should be mentioned. 29. A major problem for Ukraine is the issue of the return and rehabilitation of minorities deported during the Soviet period, which included Crimean Tatars, Germans, Poles, Bulgarians, Greeks and Armenians. The State is taking measures aimed at their legal, political, social and cultural rehabilitation. 30. The Government of Yugoslavia pointed out that, during the census in 1991, 26,922 inhabitants of Yugoslavia, that is, 0.2 per cent of the total population, declared themselves Bulgarians. In terms of their number they constituted the tenth minority group in the State. Persons belonging to the Bulgarian minority lived in central Serbia, and were most numerous in the communes of Bosilegrad (72.9 per cent of the inhabitants), Dimitrovgrad (52.5 per cent) and Surdulica (6.2 per cent). Persons belonging to national minorities in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, including the Bulgarian minority, enjoyed on the basis of equality with other citizens all human rights guaranteed in international instruments on human rights, as well as additional minority rights; the latter, in the view of the Government, went beyond the provisions of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (General Assembly resolution 47/135, annex). 31. The replies referred to above showed that non-discrimination and special measures leading to the equal enjoyment of all human rights remained the basis of the protection of the existence of persons belonging to minorities. In that respect the special measures being taken by the Government of Ukraine relating to the return of the deported Crimean nationals should be emphasized. B. The right to enjoy their own culture 32. In accordance with the provisions of the Law on National Minorities of Belarus, members of national minorities are free to found cultural societies. In addition, they have the right to receive financial support from the State. 33. The Government of Colombia indicated that ethnic and cultural education in Colombian society is diverse and pluralistic; it focuses on the descendants of indigenous ethnic groups comprising the pre-Colombian cultures, the descendants of Africans brought as slaves during the colonial period and the descendants of ethnic Europeans who colonized the country, the majority of whom were Spanish. 34. The Political Constitution of Colombia, promulgated in 1991 by a democratically elected National Constituent Assembly, recognizes this fact and provides the country with the tools required to guarantee the protection of ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic diversity. 35. Thus, this fundamental document states in articles 7 and 8 that the State recognizes and protects the ethnic and cultural diversity of the Colombian nation, and, that it is the obligation of the State and of individuals to protect the cultural and natural assets of the nation. /...