A/50/514 English Page 14 (d) Ensuring that Governments (and, where possible, minorities) explore models of good practice including the internationalization standards on minorities; (e) Entering into a dialogue with treaty bodies on the Declaration and Asbjørn Eide’s recommendations; (f) Seeking to incorporate the issue of minority rights appropriately into all existing United Nations mechanisms. V. A. TREATY BODIES Human Rights Committee 50. The Human Rights Committee continued to monitor the observance of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. It considered and commented on a number of reports submitted by States parties to the Covenant, with specific reference to the implementation of article 27. The Committee, in its interpretation of the implementation by States parties of article 27 and in its observations, suggestions and recommendations, took into account General Comment No. 23(50) adopted by the Committee at its fiftieth session on 6 April 1994. The Committee referred to the issue of minorities in its consideration of the periodic reports at its fifty-fourth session of, among others, Ukraine, Latvia, Tunisia, Morocco, New Zealand and the United States of America. 51. In its dialogue with States parties, the Committee requested on a number of occasions clarification of the measures taken with respect to the implementation of article 27 in the light of its General Comment No. 23. In certain cases, the Committee regretted that the necessary steps to adopt legislative and other measures to give effect to article 27 had not been taken and that the level of the protection of minorities was still not in conformity with the Covenant. 52. At its fifty-second session, the Committee considered Communication No. 511/1992, Ilmari Länsman et al. v. Finland, under article 5, paragraph 4, of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The authors of the communication are Ilmari Länsman and 47 other members of the Muotkatunturi Herdsmen’s Committee and members of the Angeli local community. The authors affirm that the quarrying of stone on the flank of the Etelä-Riutusvaara mountain and its transportation through their reindeerherding territory would violate their right under article 27 of the Covenant, in particular their right to enjoy their own culture, which has traditionally been and remains essentially based on reindeer husbandry. In the light of the information provided by the parties and of paragraph 7 of its General Comment No. 23 on article 27, the Committee concluded that quarrying on the slopes of Mount Riutusvaara in the amount that had already taken place did not constitute a denial of the authors’ right, under article 27, to enjoy their own culture, and thus found no breach of article 27 or any other provision of the Covenant. /...