E/CN.4/2005/61/Add.1 Page 55 religious communities recognized by this bill were essentially mono-ethnic and that the bill therefore discriminated against “multi-ethnic” religious communities and would thus be unconstitutional. The Serbian Orthodox Church was given the status of primus inter pares (first among equals). The remaining recognized faith communities were the Catholic Church, the Islamic faith community, the Jewish religious community, the Slovak Lutheran and Hungarian/German Lutheran Churches, and the Hungarian Reformed Church. Reports indicated that the draft bill gave clergy of these Churches and religious communities substantial rights in terms of social security, pensions, salary support for communities in remote areas, access to local communities' building funds, rights to perform marriages and burials and to maintain marriage registers. Moreover, the status of a "traditional" faith was given to those communities recognized by parliament in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918-1941). However, although some other minor Churches such as the Baptists and the Mennonites were reportedly recognized at that time, they were not given the status of a “traditional” faith in the draft bill. It was further alleged that article 17 of the bill would grant to clergy of these “traditional” communities the same immunity as enjoyed by parliamentary deputies and judges. Follow-up to previously transmitted communication 211. By letter dated 12 January 2004, the Government of Serbia and Montenegro provided the following initial information in response to a letter sent by the Special Rapporteur on 7 October 2003 concerning an alleged case of religious intolerance during a concert hosted by the Pentecostal Church in Vrdnik on 8 August 2003. 212. The information that the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights received from the police station in Irig indicated that the Pentecostal Church had indeed hosted a concert in Vrdnik on 8 August 2003. The concert had been duly notified to the police and recorded under reference No. 212-2114. At about 11.15 pm, Dragan Radovanovic, a resident of Nova Kolonija 3/34, Vrdnik, called the lrig police station to report that he had heard an explosion near the site where the concert was being held. Police officers who came to the scene found a device, bearing the markings 93 RGM-70, thought to have caused the blast. In their report, they said that the device was a false grenade. On 11 November 2003, the investigating officers sent all the documents related to this incident to the State Prosecutor's Office in Ruma, reference No. PU-146/03, where it was entered under KTH-81/03 in the relevant records. The Government finally informed the Special Rapporteur that the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights had requested the Ruma Municipality State Prosecutor's Office to provide complete documentation on the incident. Any additional information, in particular those relating to further steps taken in connection with the case, would be communicated to the Special Rapporteur subsequently. Observations 213. The Special Rapporteur is grateful for the details provided in the reply of the Government and would like to reiterate the observation of the Human Rights Committee in its concluding observations of 28 July 2004 (CCPR/CO/81/SEMO) that Serbia and Montenegro “should ensure that all members of ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, whether or not their communities are recognized as national