MINELRES: Georgia Ratifies CoE Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities on October 13, 2005
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Georgia Ratifies CoE Convention on National Minorities
14/10/05 - Civil Georgia / Georgia
The Georgian Parliament ratified, with a 125-5 vote, the Framework Convention
for the Protection of National Minorities on October 13. Ratification of this
document was part of Georgia�s commitment undertaken while joining the Council
of Europe in 1999.
But in a clause made by the parliamentarians to the ratified document Georgia
refrained from undertaking a commitment to ensure the conditions which would
make it possible to employ minority languages in relations between the
representatives of the national minority groups and administrative authorities
in areas predominantly populated by national minorities.
The Georgian side also states that it will not be responsible for implementing
provisions of the Convention on the territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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