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(20) CSCE seminars will not produce a negotiated document or follow-up programmes.
(21) Contributions by independent experts will be of a non-restricted character.
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Enhanced commitments and co-operation in the Human Dimension
National minorities
The participating States
(23) Reaffirm in the strongest terms their determination to implement in a prompt and
faithful manner all their CSCE commitments, including those contained in the Vienna
Concluding Document, the Copenhagen Document and the Geneva Report, regarding
questions relating to national minorities and rights of persons belonging to them;
(24) Will intensify in this context their efforts to ensure the free exercise by persons
belonging to national minorities, individually or in community with others, of their
human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the right to participate fully, in
accordance with the democratic decision-making procedures of each State, in the political, economic, social and cultural life of their countries including through democratic
participation in decision-making and consultative bodies at the national, regional and
local level, inter alia, through political parties and associations;
(25) Will continue through unilateral, bilateral and multilateral efforts to explore further avenues for more effective implementation of their relevant CSCE commitments,
including those related to the protection and the creation of conditions for the promotion of the ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious identity of national minorities;
(26) Will address national minority issues in a constructive manner, by peaceful means
and through dialogue among all parties concerned on the basis of CSCE principles and
commitments;
(27) Will refrain from resettling and condemn all attempts, by the threat or use of force,
to resettle persons with the aim of changing the ethnic composition of areas within
their territories;
Indigenous populations
The participating States
(29) Noting that persons belonging to indigenous populations may have special problems in exercising their rights, agree that their CSCE commitments regarding human
rights and fundamental freedoms apply fully and without discrimination to such persons.
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