E/CN.4/1991/56 page 63 international law, a document that would be able to contribute to a larger degree to the full and effective enjoyment of human rights as stipulated in the Declaration on Religious Intolerance. As has been brought to your knowledge, on 29 December 1989 the Council of State and the Council of Ministers of Bulgaria adopted a decision condemning all actions infringing on the right to a free choice of name and religious belief, as well as the right of every citizen, with the Bulgarian language being officially recognized and utilized as language of State, to speak other languages in everyday life, to adhere to his or her customs. The competent State bodies were instructed to take measures to rectify the committed wrongs. In this same decision it was proposed to the National Assembly to grant amnesty for all political offences carried out in connection with the name changes which were not linked to terrorist acts. In the wake of this decision, a session of the Public Panel to Discuss the National Question, held in Sofia, drafted a Declaration on the National Question. This same Declaration was adopted by the National Assembly on 15 January 1990. This spring many legislative steps were taken, the aim of which was to lay the basis for building a democratic State governed by law in Bulgaria. Some of these have a direct bearing on the implementation of the Declaration on Religious Intolerance, as the following examples show. On 16 January 1990, by virtue of the Law on Amnesty and Release from Purging Imposed Sentences which was adopted by Decree No. 95 of the Council of State of Bulgaria, amnesty was granted for certain crimes committed after 1 January 1984 in connection with Bulgarian citizens' name changes. The Law to Amend and Supplement the Constitution of Bulgaria (see State Gazette, issue 29, 10 April 1990) proclaimed the freedom of religious propaganda. The adoption of the Bulgarian Citizens' Names Law (see State Gazette, issue 20, 3 March 1990) furnished the possibility, under an accelerated court procedure, of examining and ruling on requests for restoration of forcibly changed names. On 9 November 1990 the Grand National Assembly adopted at first reading a draft to amend the Bulgarian Citizens' Names Law. These amendments provided for replacing the court procedure with an administrative one, something that would ease and speed up the name-restoration process. A number of other problems have been solved at relevant governmental levels, problems that arose in connection with encroachments on the rights of Bulgarian citizens of Muslim denomination. Early March this year an action-oriented Commission was set up for the purpose of tackling the problems resulting from the large number of Bulgarian citizens who left for Turkey throughout the summer of 1989: providing housing and jobs for those who returned, restoring educational rights of students and pupils, etc. This Commission is headed by a Vice-Chairman of the Council of Ministers. In April 1990 the Council of Ministers of Bulgaria adopted a relevant decree whereby many major problems were settled: the procedure for issuing building permits was accelerated; additional financial and material resources