A/50/476 English Page 16 29. Some experts believed that this new emerging collaboration responded to the wishes of the Commission on Human Rights when it had appointed the Special Rapporteur. Suggestions were made for pursuing this cooperation. In that way, certain priorities could be established jointly in order to prevent the development of racist organizations or the resurgence of pseudo-scientific racist ideologies. Other priority activities would also be worth undertaking jointly, for example, providing human rights training to police forces (and lawenforcement agents in general), or campaigns to enlist youth in the fight against racism in all its forms. It was also suggested that the Committee should alert the Special Rapporteur to emergency situations examined in the context of the mechanism for the prevention of racial discrimination (early warning and emergency procedures). For his part, the Special Rapporteur would make an effort to raise public awareness of the Committee’s activities in its capacity as an expert body for the monitoring of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. 30. The Special Rapporteur emphasized the need for effective cooperation with the members of the Committee and the Secretariat. Furthermore, he indicated that he had adopted the definition of racial discrimination set out in article 1 of the Convention. In reply to the suggestion by some experts that he should pay greater attention to the situation in third world countries, the Special Rapporteur did not agree that he had concentrated on Western countries. He assured the Committee that in the remaining three years of his mandate, due account would be taken of the different continents in his reports. 31. It was agreed that neither the Special Rapporteur nor the Committee should act in isolation and that both would gain from exchanging information and from providing mutual support. The need for the contribution of both mechanisms to the consideration of racism and racial discrimination was recognized. 32. On the subject of the suggestion by one member of the Committee that the Special Rapporteur should seek to identify the reasons why some States had not become parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Special Rapporteur had received a clarification from the Turkish Government, the relevant parts of which are brought to the attention of the General Assembly at the request of the Turkish Government: "Becoming party to international instruments is indeed a serious matter which necessitates detailed study before reaching any decision. In attaining a conclusion related to accession to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Turkish authorities took into consideration the contribution this Convention, which deals with only one aspect of such a multifaceted phenomenon as racism, has made to the elimination of racial discrimination. Unfortunately, the findings were not positive. The minuscule number of communications sent thus far to the Committee vividly demonstrates this fact. It would be safe to state that, so far, the Convention has not only failed to serve the noble cause of eliminating the abhorrent practice of racial discrimination, but has had the exact opposite effect by contributing to the dilution of the concept, by confusing racial discrimination with other forms of discrimination." /...