A/49/415/Add.1 English Page 21 organizations, provides advice to the Minister of the Interior on all matters related to immigration and integration. 98. The Ministry further pointed out that the Council of Europe met at Vienna on 8 and 9 October 1993 and adopted a plan of action for combating racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and intolerance. Part of the plan of action is a campaign aimed particularly at the young, that will have a national and local dimension in Denmark. This will be carried out by the Danish Youth Council, the Ministry of the Interior and a wide range of other institutions and organizations that make up the membership of the National Committee set up under the campaign. The campaign will, in all likelihood, consist of measures for the creation of general awareness and information, as well as special measures to promote cultural meetings by activating and integrating young members of ethnic minorities in leisure activities, associations and clubs also frequented by Danes. Furthermore, the Nordic Council has resolved to implement a Nordic campaign against racism and xenophobia. This campaign will be closely linked to the Council of Europe Campaign and will be implemented in such a way that work of a repetitious or inexpedient nature will be avoided. 99. The Government of Sweden pointed out that the two principal agencies entrusted with the task of counteracting ethnic discrimination were the National Board of Immigration and the Ombudsman against Ethnic Discrimination. The National Board of Immigration focuses on studies and dissemination of information and is responsible for communicating its findings so as to forestall and prevent ethnic conflicts. The Ombudsman against Ethnic Discrimination is responsible for counteracting existing or suspected discrimination, mainly from a legal perspective. The Ombudsman must assist individuals who have experienced discrimination and protect their rights by providing expert advice and information, help form public opinion by participating in public debate and recommend legislation and other measures to combat ethnic discrimination. In some cases, when a crime against the Act to Counteract Ethnic Discrimination was suspected, the Ombudsman has also had a litigating role. 100. Measures concerning a national minority in Sweden, the indigenous Saami population, were described in the eleventh report of Sweden to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. 1/ On 26 August 1993, after the submission of that report, the governmental authority for Saami affairs was inaugurated. The governing body of that authority is an assembly, the Sameting, with 31 members, all elected every fourth year by the Saami population. The Sameting will, inter alia, decide on the distribution of funds allocated by the Government to promote Saami culture and to support Saami organizations. 101. The Government of Yugoslavia pointed out that funds were regularly earmarked from the budget of the Republic of Serbia for publishing expenses for the Bulgarian newspaper Bratstvo and for publishing houses. Within the framework of the last distribution of radio frequencies tender, the Government of the Republic of Serbia allocated a frequency to the assembly of the commune of Dimitrovgrad. /...

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