Government, each government giving its comments. The Slovak recommendations stressed the need to
enhance consultations between the government and the minorities in the Presidential and Foreign
Minorities's roundtables, the position of Hungarian as a language of instruction and the planned
administrative reform of Slovakia. The recommendations to the Hungarian government dealt with the
effective and speedy implementation of the Hungarian Act on the Rights of National and Ethnic
Minorities.
Roma Report
The High Commissioner's report on the social, economic and humanitarian problems relating to the
Roma population in some participating States and, as these problems could also have an international
dimension, their relevance to the High commissioner’s mandate was submitted to the CSO at is meeting
on 21-23 September. Upon the CSO's decision its finding s and recommendations were further
discussed at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (see below). A suggestion made by the
High Commissioner in his speech to the Implementation Meeting was reflected in one of the informal
recommendations emerging from the meeting, namely that, if time and the resources of the ODIHR
permit, a seminar on the Roma will be organised by the ODIHR and held in 1994.
Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
At its June 1993 meeting the CSO had requested the High Commissioner to provide information on his
activities to the first human dimension implementation meeting (27 September 1 to 15 October 1993 in
Warsaw). At that meeting the High Commissioner delivered an intervention which focused on the
essential relationship between conflict prevention and the human dimension, in particular with regard to
the High Commissioner's activities, illustrating this relationship with examples from his own practical
experience.
Note: Previous information on the activities of the CSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
was published in the ODIHR Bulletin Nos. 2 and 3.
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