A/53/269 Assembly should devote particular attention to the consideration of these phenomena. The Special Rapporteur therefore wishes to make the following recommendations: (a) As part of the preparations for the World Conference against Racism and Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, regional and subregional meetings of experts (in Africa, Asia and the Americas) like the one held in Cotonou in 1997 should be encouraged and promoted with the assistance of the specialized agencies in the United Nations system, including the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the International Labour Organization, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Development Programme, in order to consider the problems caused by such phenomena. (b) A body on neo-fascism, neo-Nazism and ethno-nationalism should be established to study such phenomena in close cooperation with the Special Rapporteur. States Members should be invited to communicate relevant information to this body. Notes 10 1 See Le Monde Diplomatique, No. 529, April 1998, p. 1. 2 Territory delimited on the basis of the research work of the anthropologist Guilherme dos Santos Barboza and his team; see Centro Afro-Brasileiro de Estudos e Pesquisas Culturais: Relatorio ethnologico, technico e scientifico sobre os quilombos de Vale de ribeira, São Paulo, 1979. 3 See Institute for Jewish Policy Research Newsletter, Spring 1998, pp. 1 and 2. 4 Plan of action against racism, Communication of the European Commission, Brussels, 25 March 1998, COM (1998) 183 final. 5 European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI): ECRI’s country-by-country approach, vol. I, CRI (97) 48.