A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/48/138 4 March 1994 Forty-eighth session Agenda item 114 (b) RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Third Committee (A/48/632/Add.2)] 48/138. Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 47/135 of 18 December 1992, by which it adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, Conscious of the need effectively to promote and protect the rights of persons belonging to minorities, as set out in the Declaration, Noting the importance of an even more effective implementation of international human rights instruments with regard to the rights of all persons, including those belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, Welcoming Commission on Human Rights resolution 1993/24 of 5 March 1993 on the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, 1/ __________ See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1993, 1/ Supplement No. 3 (E/1993/23), chap. II, sect. A. /...