A/CONF.189/PC.2/22 page 50 114 See UNESCO, World Education Report, Paris, 1998, p. 65. 115 See Montreal International Seminar, op. cit. (note 16), para. 26. 116 See, for example, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, “General guidelines regarding the form and contents of reports to be submitted by States parties” (CERD/C/70/Rev.5, 5 December 2000, art. 7 A). 117 The problem is further complicated when several languages are spoken or when a language is not suitable for teaching purposes. For more on these questions, see UNESCO, The Use of Vernacular Languages in Education, Paris, 1953, pp. 56–61. 118 See, in the document cited in note 25 (E/CN.4/Sub.2/AC.4/1998/2), the communication from UNESCO entitled “Methodological notes on linguistic reform to promote indigenous languages” (paras. 3-4); see also, in the same document, the communication from Terralingua entitled “Linguistic human rights in education” (para. 12); and, finally, see Tomaševski, op. cit. (note 3), para. 66. 119 Capotorti, in the study cited in note 8, reports on the arrangements in many countries, depending on the groups in each country; some countries offer a range of choices to minorities (see para. 499 ff.). 120 Capotorti (para. 347) cites the case of a country where the prime innovation was to define literacy in terms of the local languages spoken by the two ethnic groups in that country. 121 See Tomaševski (E/CN.4/2000/6/Add.1); the author believes that linguistic reform does not entail any extra costs and even allows savings to be made in educational spending. 122 See the report by Jacques Delors cited in note 22. 123 See the report of the Montreal International Seminar on Multicultural and Intercultural Educational (note 16), para. 6. 124 Ibid. 125 See A/CONF.189/PC.1/11) (note 97), paras. 32–33. 126 In this connection, see Mehedi, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1999/10 (note 15), para. 58; Montreal International Seminar, op. cit. (note 16), para. 12; and Meyer-Bisch, E/C.12/1998/17 (note 5), para. 21. 127 For a similar argument, see “Study on the implementation of article 7 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination”, op. cit. (note 2), para 49. 128 See, in particular, the Montreal International Seminar, op. cit. (note 16), para. 13.