A/71/301 administrative provisions that facilitate, encourage or tolerate discriminatory practices are removed. 43 78. In Argentina, the National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism and the federal council for anti-discriminatory public policies held the second Youth Federal Parliament in 2015. In 2009, the National Institute had launched the Observatory of Discrimination in Football, an innovative initiative to prevent, analyse and combat discriminatory situations that may arise in football. 79. In Malta, the National Action Plan against Racism and Xenophobia 44 (a threeyear plan developed in 2010) had the objective of developing anti -racist initiatives, such as advocacy actions, capacity-building, research activities and grass-roots initiatives. 80. In Ireland, the National Action Plan against Racism 2005 -2008 45 was launched in January 2005 by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. The Plan provided strategic direction to comba t racism and promote a more inclusive, intercultural society in Ireland. The development of the Plan was preceded by a 12-month consultation process involving a wide range of stakeholders, including the Government, social partners and civil society. The launch of the Plan was in fulfilment of a commitment given at the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. Ireland was one of the first States in the world to establish a national action plan against racism and one of the few in the European Union to do so. 81. On 31 December 2014, in his New Year’s speech to the French people, the President of France declared combating racism and anti -Semitism a major national cause for 2015, 46 which resulted in the creation of the 2015-2017 national action plan to combat racism and anti-Semitism. 82. Lastly, in Ukraine, an inter-agency working group to combat xenophobia and ethnic and racial intolerance, which brought together a broad range of relevant actors, was set up in 2008 under the Cabinet of Ministers to tackle these issues in an integrated manner. It adopted a plan of action to combat xenophobia and racial and ethnic discrimination in Ukrainian society for 2008 -2009, and a similar plan for 2010-2012. 47 III. Conclusions and recommendations 83. The Special Rapporteur welcomes the efforts made at the international, regional and national levels to establish national specialized bodies and develop national action plans for the elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. __________________ 43 44 45 46 47 20/21 See www.conapred.org.mx/index.php?contenido=noticias&id=4835&id_opcion=108&op=214 (in Spanish, accessed 21 June 2016). Equality Research Consortium, “National Action Plan Against Racism Malta”, December 2010. See www.justice.ie/en/JELR/NPARen.pdf/Files/NPARen.pdf. France, Délégation interministérielle à la lutte contre le racisme et l ’antisémitisme, Mobilizing France against racism and anti-Semitism: 2015-2017 action plan (Paris, 2015). Available from www.gouvernement.fr. See European Commission against Racism and Intolerance, report on Ukraine (fourth monitoring cycle), document CRI(2012)6, p. 7. 16-13565