Ladies and gentlemen, your excellencies, First, I would like to thank the Special Rapporteur for having invited me to this prestigious event, it is quite an honor to be here. On Monday, we have, in detail discussed a Draft Recommendation on Minorities in the Criminal Justice System. Once finalized, submitted and adopted, it, I am sure, will serve as an invaluable instrument for the protection of minorities in the criminal justice system and beyond. Among the various important issues raised in the document and the interventions heard yesterday and today, I will only highlight two, which I find worthy for consideration in the Forum. The first concerns dilemmas pertaining to data collection and underlying definitions and classifications of minority communities, as well as membership within the groups, and the second pertains to the definition of hate crimes. I would like to emphasize in the outset that discrimination in the criminal justice system, and policing in particular, can occur both in the form of OVER AND UNDER POLICING OF MINORITIES. The first question I would like to address concerns classification and data collection. We see a well-documented, and often historically rooted and, thus, understandable reluctance on behalf of many states to collect data on ethnicity and race.