A/51/536 English Page 27 to a religious minority (Muslims), in Sandjak, the incidents of discrimination against the Roma (Gypsy) population, and the reports of the progressive exclusion of teaching in languages other than Serbian, such as Bulgarian. The Committee recommended that a solution be found to its concerns for the situation of Albanian-speaking children in Kosovo, that the State-controlled mass media contribute to the efforts to foster tolerance and understanding between different groups and that the broadcasting of programmes that ran counter to that objective should end. 106. In its concluding observations on the report of Iceland, the Committee welcomed the report that education for immigrants was available, that the requirement that a person seeking Icelandic citizenship had to add an Icelandic name to his or her original name had been abolished, and that the issue of the status of stateless children was being addressed. 107. In its concluding observations on the report of Croatia, the Committee noted with appreciation the establishment of the special parliamentary Committee for Human Rights and the Rights of Ethnic and National Communities or Minorities, and the progress made in modifying the Law on Citizenship so as to eliminate risks of discrimination. The Committee recommended that the Government devote its efforts to encouraging a culture of tolerance through all possible channels, including schools, the media and the law, that the State-controlled mass media should play an active role in the efforts to secure tolerance and understanding between different ethnic groups, and that the protection of the rights of children belonging to minority groups should be encouraged. 108. In its concluding observations on the report of Finland, the Committee expressed concern at the absence of an integrated monitoring mechanism capable, inter alia, of supervising the effectiveness of decentralized and sometimes privatized social (health, education and social care) municipal policies and services for the most vulnerable groups of society, including minority children. In the light of article 30 of the Convention, the Committee expressed concern about the insufficient number of teachers capable of working with minority children. It recommended that the Convention be translated into all languages spoken by minorities living in Finland. Twelfth session 109. At its twelfth session, the Committee had before it the reports of: Lebanon (CRC/C/8/Add.23), Cyprus (CRC/C/8/Add.24), Guatemala (CRC/C/3/Add.33), China (CRC/C/11/Add.7), Nepal (CRC/C/3/Add.34) and Zimbabwe (CRC/C/3/Add.35). 110. In its concluding observations on the report of Lebanon, the Committee expressed its concern at the apparent discrimination in the gaining of nationality by a child of parents of mixed nationality, as the nationality might only be obtained by a child from her/his Lebanese father but not from the mother and, in the case of unmarried parents, only if the Lebanese father acknowledged the child. The Committee recommended that the teaching of values such as tolerance, and friendship among all peoples, including ethnic and religious groups, be incorporated in school curricula. /...

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