E/CN.4/1998/79 page 10 - Elaborate recommendations to strengthen the promotion, protection and implementation of the human rights of migrants.” 28. The Working Group was officially established in Geneva on 17 November 1997. It held its first session from 17 to 21 November. The summary records of its meetings and its conclusions and recommendations may be consulted at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. (d) Activities of the Council of Europe 29. As indicated in the Special Rapporteur's last report to the General Assembly (A/52/471), the Council of Europe proclaimed 1997 European Year Against Racism. In that connection, it is worth mentioning the adoption by the Committee of Ministers of that organization, on 30 October 1997, of Recommendation No. R (97) 20 to member States on “hate speech”, in which the Committee recommends that Governments: “(a) take appropriate steps to combat hate speech on the basis of the principles laid down in this recommendation; “(b) ensure that such steps form part of a comprehensive approach to the phenomenon, which also targets its social, economic, political, cultural and other root causes; “(c) where they have not done so, sign, ratify and effectively implement in national law the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, in accordance with resolution (68) 30 of the Committee of Ministers on Measures to be taken against incitement to racial, national and religious hatred; “(d) review their domestic legislation and practice in order to ensure that they comply with the principles set out in the appendix to this recommendation.” 30. The Special Rapporteur welcomes that normative action by the Committee of Ministers and trusts that member States of the Council of Europe will implement it effectively in their national law. The Council of Europe also informed the Special Rapporteur that it had set up a European observatory on racist and xenophobic phenomena, which should help combat xenophobia and intolerance in Europe. The Committee of Ministers also called for a clause forbidding discrimination to be introduced in European Union treaties. Lastly, the Special Rapporteur has been informed of the entry into force, on 1 February 1998, of the European Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. 2/ Those developments are appreciable and promising. IV. CONTEMPORARY MANIFESTATIONS OF RACISM, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, XENOPHOBIA AND RELATED INTOLERANCE 31. As in previous reports, the Special Rapporteur wishes to set out below the most salient facts that have come to his notice concerning contemporary manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. These concern discrimination against Blacks (negrophobia);