E/CN.4/1992/52 page 129 create the necessary conditions for the normalization of inter-church relations in order to achieve a peaceful and just resolution of the religious problems which have been building up for decades. In the context of the democratic process of renewal currently taking place in the Ukrainian SSR, the Government of the Republic recently adopted a series of measures designed to build a peaceful dialogue between the various faiths, to improve relations between Church and State and, ultimately, to ensure practical religious freedom. In turn this should facilitate a fuller and more extensive implementation of the provisions of the 1981 United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief in the Ukrainian SSR. At present there are registered in the Ukrainian SSR around 10,000 different religious associations, belonging to the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic, the Old Belief, Seventh-Day Adventist and Evangelical churches, and also Jewish, Muslim, Methodist and other religious associations. Over the past few years the number of religious associations in the Ukrainian SSR has almost doubled. In recent times alone a Russian Orthodox Seminary (in Kiev), a Ukrainian Orthodox Seminary (in Lvov) and several monasteries have opened in the Ukrainian SSR and a Seventh-Day Adventist Church centre has been set up. Religious associations regularly receive Bibles and other religious literature, some of it from abroad, and undertake their own publishing, producing magazines, newspapers, church calendars, and special collections. So, for instance, in 1990 approximately 250,000 copies of the Bible in Ukrainian entered the Republic from abroad. Between 1988 and the present time over 600,000 copies have been received. The Republic's religious organizations are developing international links. In 1989-1990 several thousand religious activists from many countries visited the Ukrainian SSR." United States of America In its reply, the Government of the United States of America indicated that "although clashes between different religious denominations and crimes based on religious prejudice are infrequent in the United States, the United States has taken further efforts to reduce such incidents." Zimbabwe "No. We have not experienced any yet." 88. (g) Has vour country taken any steps against the expression of extremist or fanatical opinions which mav lead to religious intransigence or intolerance? Australia See under (f).