25 May 1990

14th Plenary Meeting

1990/39. Rights of persons belonging to national, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities

The Economic and Social Council,

Recalling Commission on Human Rights resolution 1990/45 of 6 March 1990,

1. Authorizes an open-ended working group of the Commission on Human Rights to meet for no fewer than ten fully serviced meetings during the first two weeks of the forty-seventh session of the Commission to continue work on the draft declaration on the rights of persons belonging to national, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, through a second reading of the text, with a view to submitting it to the Commission at its forty-seventh session;

2. Requests the Secretary-General to provide the working group with all the assistance it may require for the continuation of its work.