E/CN.4/1994/66 page 5 21. The Special Rapporteur also notes that the Commission is conscious that the scourges of racism and racial discrimination are continually assuming new forms, requiring a periodic re-examination of the method used to combat them. In this respect, there are those who consider that subregional or regional integration is a factor that tends to exclude others. Economic resources, the cause of the intensification of racism and racial discrimination 22. The Special Rapporteur fully endorses the in-depth analysis made by the Commission, which has led it to the conviction that racism and racial discrimination, in whatever form, are intensified by, inter alia, conflicts over economic resources, in developed as well as in developing countries, and can best be defeated by a combination of economic, legislative and educational measures. The indivisibility and interrelatedness of rights and fundamental freedoms 23. The Special Rapporteur unreservedly supports the Commission’s reassertion that all human rights and fundamental freedoms, economic, social and cultural, as well as civil and political, are indivisible and interrelated. The proclamation of the Third Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination 24. The Special Rapporteur endorses the recommendation made by the Commission in resolution 1993/20 that the General Assembly should launch a third decade to combat racism and racial discrimination. He also welcomes the decision taken by the General Assembly, at its forty-eighth session, in resolution 48/91, to proclaim the Third Decade and to adopt a Programme of Action. The obligations of the international community 25. In keeping with the wish expressed by the Commission in resolution 1993/20, the Special Rapporteur emphasizes the obligation of the international community to take urgent measures to eradicate apartheid completely and to combat all other forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, including those practised against vulnerable groups. 26. In addition, the Special Rapporteur confirms, together with the Commission, the importance, in the struggle against racism and racial discrimination, of a complementarity of economic, social, educational and information measures at the national level, including legislative, administrative and penal measures and of measures taken at the international level. 27. Continuing his scrutiny of the resolution, the Special Rapporteur, like the Commission, recognizes the important role that can be played in this regard by the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of