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9. Affirms its determination to combat violence stemming from intolerance on the basis of ethnicity,
which it considers an issue of particular gravity;
10. Requests the Secretary-General to continue the study on the effects of racial discrimination on
the children of minorities and those of migrant workers in the fields of education, training and
employment and to submit, inter alia, specific recommendations for the implementation of measures to
combat the effects of that discrimination;
11. Regrets the lack of interest, support and financial resources for the Third Decade and its related
Programme of Action, reflected in the fact that very few of the activities planned for the period 1994-1997
were carried out;
12. Also regrets that the contributions made by the international community to the Trust Fund for
the Programme of Action for the Third Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination remain
below the level required, and requests the Secretary-General to include in his report to the General
Assembly at its fifty-third session concrete proposals on how to ensure the financial and personnel
resources required for the implementation of the Programme of Action, including through the United
Nations regular budget and extrabudgetary sources;
13. Welcomes the convening, at Geneva from 10 to 14 November 1997, of a seminar on the role
of the Internet with regard to the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination;
14. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Commission on Human Rights at its fifty-fourth
session on the outcome of the two seminars held on the implementation of the Programme of Action
concerning migration, racism and racial discrimination and on the role of the Internet with regard to the
provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination;
15. Recommends that the activities being organized to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights include programmes targeted at combating racism and racial
discrimination;
16. Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to take duly into account
the repeated appeals of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council for the establishment
of a mechanism for coordinating all the activities of the Third Decade;
17. Considers that voluntary contributions to the Trust Fund are indispensable for the implementation
of the Programme of Action;
18. Urges the Secretary-General, United Nations bodies, the specialized agencies, all Governments,
intergovernmental organizations and relevant non-governmental organizations, in implementing the
Programme of Action, to pay particular attention to the situation of indigenous people;
19. Requests States and international organizations to consider the relevant decisions of the
Economic and Social Council on the integrated follow-up to previous world conferences and the need to
make optimum use of all available mechanisms in the struggle against racism;
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