A/HRC/61/41 18. From 23 to 26 May, the Special Rapporteur participated in the Minority Rights Academy organized by the Hrant Dink Foundation in Istanbul, Türkiye. 19. From 24 to 27 June, the Special Rapporteur attended the twentieth International Conference on Minority Languages in Bogotá, during which he delivered a keynote speech on the theme “From large language models to minority languages: a vision for the international landscape of language rights”. 20. On 1 July, the Special Rapporteur spoke at a side event to the fifty-ninth session of the Human Rights Council, organized by the Sikh Human Rights Group on the theme “A declaration on diversity for a world in transition”. 21. On 2 July, the Special Rapporteur spoke at the side event to the fifty-ninth session of the Human Rights Council, organized by the Next Century Foundation on the theme of protecting minorities in a future Syrian Arab Republic. 22. On 3 July, the Special Rapporteur spoke at the side event to the fifty-ninth session of the Human Rights Council, organized by the International Yazidis Foundation for the Prevention of Genocide on the theme “Protecting minority identity in conflict zones: lessons learned from Iraq and beyond”. 23. On 7 and 8 July, the Special Rapporteur presented the achievements and challenges faced in the realization of his mandate at the Global Minority Rights summer school hosted by the Tom Lantos Institute. 24. On 17 July, the Special Rapporteur delivered a keynote address at a briefing for the Congress of the United States of America in Washington, D.C., on the challenges facing religious minorities in India. 25. On 3 September, the Special Rapporteur met with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of North Macedonia, Timcho Mucunski, to discuss minority issues in North Macedonia and the region. 26. On 23 and 24 September, the Special Rapporteur delivered a speech at the Congress on Minorities: National and Ethnic Minorites in Poland and Europe, on the theme “Society, Politic, State”, held at the University of Opole in Opole, Poland. 27. On 25 September, the Special Rapporteur participated in a meeting of the special procedures on the Addis Ababa Road Map. 28. From 13 to 17 October, the Special Rapporteur participated in workshops of the sixth annual meeting of the “Faith for Rights” communities of practice in Siem Reap, Cambodia, and Bangkok, organized by OHCHR, Wat Bowonniwet Vihara, Bodhigaya Vijjalaya 980 Institute and Dharma Alliance. 29. On 22 October, the Special Rapporteur delivered a presentation about minority representation and the right to education of minority children during a webinar organized by the United Nations network on racial discrimination and the protection of minorities. 30. On 23 October, the Special Rapporteur presented his report on minority issues in the context of the United Nations reform process 2 to the Third Committee of the General Assembly. While in New York, and as part of promoting the recommendations set out in his report, he held strategic meetings with the delegation of the European Union to the United Nations, the Director of the Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs, representatives of the Development Coordination Office, the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, the Chef de Cabinet of the President of the General Assembly, representatives of the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations and the Indian American Muslim Council and the Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support. He also organized an informal exchange, hosted by the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations, concerning the recommendations offset out in his report to the General Assembly, with representatives of several permanent missions in New York, including those of Austria, 2 4 A/80/186. GE.25-20927