belonging to national minorities. These texts provide useful guidance to state authorities, decision makers, minority representatives, non-governmental organisations, and other relevant stakeholders. It offers advice and practical recommendations in order to assist the development of cohesive societies when drafting legislation and policies affecting rights of persons belonging to national minorities. I would like to introduce briefly our most recent commentary on the language rights of persons belonging to national minorities, adopted in May this year. As most of you will know, this work follows two previous commentaries, the one related to education under the Framework. Convention, adopted in 2006 and presented at your first Session in 2008, and the second one related to