It is true that like all of us, languages die all the time. But just as murdering a person is not natural – and is a crime – the disappearance of many languages in different countries is not natural. Languages are weakened to the point of death by state policies, state policies which wrongly are based on the ideology that a state needs a single, exclusive official language to preserve or promote national unity. Somehow, the Swiss, Canadians, Indians, South Africans and many others do not seem to have learnt that lesson. [slide 7] Numéro 2: As for the recommendations, I want to reiterate that the recommendations need stylistically to be written in clearer, simpler but also more direct form. If we are talking about the right to education, and especially the application of equality and