A/51/536 English Page 6 specific programmes run by the Länder, and municipal authorities target foreigners residing in Germany. 16. The Law on National Minorities of Lithuania provided for the freedom of persons belonging to minorities to form and establish ethnic cultural organizations at their own expense. The historical and cultural monuments of ethnic minorities were considered a part of the cultural heritage of Lithuania and were thus under the protection of the State. With reference to the media, Lithuania guaranteed press and information in the languages spoken by ethnic minorities - newspapers and magazines were published in Russian, Polish, Belarusian Ukrainian, German and Yiddish. In 1994, 93 magazines and newspapers had been published in languages other than Lithuanian, with some publications in the Hebrew, Karait and Tatar languages. State radio and television programmes were broadcast in the Russian, Polish, Tatar, German, Belarusian and Ukrainian languages. Ethnic minorities had State and private radio stations and publishing houses, and the Russian and Polish television programmes were retransmitted on the territory of Lithuania. 17. Several trust funds had been set up in Mauritius to protect the culture of minorities, namely, the African Culture Trust Fund, to preserve and promote African culture and disseminate information pertaining thereto, the Ilois Trust Fund Act, to promote the social and economic welfare of the Ilois and the Ilois community in Mauritius, the Islamic Cultural Centre Trust Fund Act, to preserve and promote Islamic art and culture and disseminate valuable information pertaining to Islamic art and culture, and the Mahatma Gandhi Institute Act 1982, to establish a centre of studies of Indian culture and traditions and to promote education and culture generally. 18. The Government of Ukraine stated that it was taking steps to preserve and revive the distinctive national and cultural character of the ethnic groups that lived on its territory. The Fundamentals of Ukrainian Legislation on Culture guaranteed Ukrainian citizens, inter alia, equal cultural rights, the freedom to develop the languages and cultures of all ethnic groups and respect and support for their ethnic revival. The State offered organizational and financial assistance to almost 270 national cultural societies belonging to national minorities. On their initiative and with State support, national minority cultural centres, schools, theatres, museums and libraries had been established along with clubs and optional courses where minorities could be taught by speakers of their native languages. The cultural and informational needs of national minorities were met by the 48 newspapers published in their languages. Programmes in minority languages were broadcast on television and aired on the radio. The draft State programme for the development of culture among minorities up to the year 2000 provided for the fuller satisfaction and promotion of a wide range of general cultural needs among the country’s ethnic groups. /...