A/HRC/7/19/Add.2 page 22 91. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government revisit the existing requirements for naturalization with a view to facilitate the granting of citizenship to persons of undefined nationality. In particular, the Government should facilitate the citizenship procedures for vulnerable groups, including elders and economically marginalized segments. This should involve the offer of free-of-charge language courses for all non-citizens that wish to apply for citizenship, as partially foreseen in the Programme for Integraton of Society (2008-13) The Government should also consider appropriate measures to tackle the low level of registration as citizens of children born in Estonia after 20 August 1991 to non-citizen parents. These measures could include granting automatic citizenship at birth, without a requirement of registration by the parents, to those children born to non-citizen parents who do not acquire any other nationality. 92. As a matter of priority, the Special Rapporteur recommends that the language policy in Estonia be subject to an open, democratic and inclusive debate, in close consultation with ethnic minorities and human rights organizations, aiming at elaborating consensual strategies that better reflect the multilingual character of its society. This process should aim at promoting the living together of all the communities in Estonia on the basis of two principles: first, the legitimate right of the Estonian government to disseminate Estonian language among all residents and avoiding the process of asymmetric bilingualism that characterized the Soviet occupation; second, the respect for the existence of minority languages spoken by sizeable communities, in particular Russian, in full compliance with the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, in particular, Article 2.1: “persons belonging to national […] minorities have the right to […] use their own language, in private and in public, freely and without interfere78)nce or any form of discrimination”; Article 4.2: “States shall take measures to create favourable conditions to enable persons belonging to minorities to […] develop their culture, language, religion, traditions and customs” and Article 4.3: “States should take appropriate measures so that, wherever possible, persons belonging to minorities may have adequate opportunities to learn their mother tongue or to have instruction in their mother tongue”. Specific measures could be taken to allow linguistic minorities to reach the adequate language proficiency level demanded by the nature of their occupation, including the provision of free-of-charge Estonian language courses. 93. The Government should establish a broad process of consultation with a view at diminishing the gap in historical perceptions between the Estonian and Russian-speaking communities. In particular, a collective writing by local and international scholars of a common history of the region that is accepted and recognized by all communities would represent a significant step to foster understanding and tolerance and would facilitate the teaching of history at schools, which is viewed as one of the main obstacles to the living together of the different communities. 94. Particular attention should be granted to the vulnerable situation of the Roma community. The Government should reinforce its programmes, drawing attention to general recommendation 27 of the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination on discrimination against Roma. In particular, specific measures should be taken to improve the educational attainment of Roma children and to reduce dropout rates. The Programme should also promote a sensitization effort among the Estonian society at large to Roma history, traditions and living cultures, including their fate during