A/52/477 English Page 6 22. Recalling Commission on Human Rights resolution 1994/18, which encouraged the Special Rapporteur to examine the contribution that education could make to the more effective promotion of religious tolerance, and Commission resolutions 1995/23 and 1996/23 and General Assembly resolution 50/183, which stressed the importance of education in inculcating tolerance in matters of religion and belief, the Special Rapporteur deplores the lack of financial and human resources available to him to implement these resolutions. 23. Once again he urges the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to show a real willingness to make a minimum of resources available for the religious intolerance mandate, so that the voluminous information received from the States listed above can eventually, once the current processing is completed, be analysed and put to use for their intended purpose. IV. STATUS OF COMMUNICATIONS SENT SINCE THE FIFTY-THIRD SESSION OF THE COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 24. This report on the status of communications and replies concerns communications sent since the fifty-third session of the Commission on Human Rights, the replies or absence of replies from States and late replies. 25. Since the fifty-third session of the Commission, the Special Rapporteur has addressed communications to 48 States: Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, China (3), the Comoros, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Gabon, Georgia, Greece, India, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq (2), Israel, Kuwait, Latvia, Mauritania, Mongolia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, the Russian Federation (2), Singapore, Slovakia (2), Somalia, the Sudan, Switzerland, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam and Yemen. 26. Among these communications, urgent appeals were addressed to China and the United Arab Emirates. The urgent appeal addressed to China was a call for information regarding the detention of Yulo Dawa Tsering, a Tibetan monk, whom the Special Rapporteur had consulted during his visit to China in 1995.9 The Chinese Government replied as follows: "Mr. Yulo Dawa Tsering, aged 66, from the Dazi county (Lhasa) is a bonze at the Garden Temple in Lhasa (Tibet). In 1959, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for having participated in rebel movements, but was granted a special pardon in 1979. In 1987 he was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for incitement to acts of subversion aimed at overthrowing the Government and dividing the nation. He was paroled for good behaviour on 6 November 1994 (his parole lasted until 15 December 1995). The local area committee helped him to find work. Now that his parole is over, Mr. Yulo enjoys all the civil rights set forth in the Chinese Constitution. He is in good health and lives in good conditions. The Special Rapporteur's letter states that Mr. Yulo is currently under house arrest and deprived of his right to freedom of movement, expression and religion. That is not true." /...