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51.
The Committee recommends that the State party ensure adequate opportunities for
minorities, including for the Roma, to receive instruction in, or of, their native language and of
their culture and, to that end, increase resources allocated to minority language education, as well
as the number of teachers instructing minority languages, in cooperation with local governments
and minority self-governments.
52.
The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that minority self-governments
receive sufficient public funding to exercise their cultural autonomy and promote initiatives and
programmes in the fields of education and culture.
53.
The Committee recommends that the State party take appropriate measures, including
education and awareness-raising campaigns, to integrate the values of minority cultures into the
national culture, while at the same time preserving the cultural identity of its minorities.
54.
The Committee recommends that the State party adopt a national plan of action on
human rights and that it proceed with the proposed establishment of an inter-ministerial
committee on human rights to coordinate the preparation of periodic reports to human rights
treaty bodies, as well as the implementation of treaty body recommendations.
55.
The Committee invites the State party to consider ratifying the Convention on the
Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol.
56.
The Committee requests the State party to disseminate the present concluding
observations widely among all levels of society, particularly among government officials and
judicial authorities, and to inform the Committee on all steps taken to implement them in its next
periodic report. It also encourages the State party to engage non-governmental organizations and
other members of civil society in the process of discussion at the national level prior to the
submission of its next periodic report.
57. The Committee invites the State party to update its core document in accordance with the
2006 harmonized guidelines for the preparation of a common core document.
58.
The Committee requests the State party to include in its next periodic report a specific
section on the results of the measures taken to combat discrimination and enhance respect,
protection and fulfilment of economic, social and cultural rights of the Roma under each of the
Covenant rights. The Committee further requests the State party to include disaggregated data on
an annual basis, as well as specific benchmarks, to enable an adequate monitoring and evaluation
of the progress made in its next periodic report.
59.
Finally, the Committee requests the State party to submit its combined fourth, fifth and
sixth periodic reports by 30 June 2009.
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