3 process of dialogue. That is most likely the main reason why we managed to allow everyone who asked for the floor to express its view, at least once during the two days. As regard content, I can only be struck and amazed by the vast diversity of issues and situations that were expressed in so few hours. As the UNGA said on 10 December 1948 about the fate of minorities, “it is difficult to adopt a uniform solution of this complex and delicate questions, which has special aspects in each State in which it arises”. Actually, this is the whole dialectic challenge of raising minority issues as Human Rights. We naturally all support and promote the universality of Human Rights, as we are all “born free and equal in dignity and rights”. But at the same time, we should all accept to acknowledge the diversity and specificity of the aspirations and claims of persons belonging to minorities. This dialectic between universality and specificity is the whole challenge of minority issues as Human Rights. The key to work towards positive outcome to this apparent tension is to understand that universal doesn’t mean uniform. There is room for diversity in universality. And, according to my knowledge, acquired as a scholar and supported by much scholarly research by colleagues from various scientific fields, pluralism and diversity will not weaken universality. Quite on the contrary, it shall make it more robust; stronger; grounded not only in political

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