[Original: English] [19 January 1994] CONTENTS

[Original: English] [19 January 1994] CONTENTS Paragraphs Page LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL .................................................. 1 I. ORGANIZATIONAL AND RELATED MATTERS ................... 1 - 10 3 A. States parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination ................................... 1 - 2 3 B. Sessions and agenda .............................. 3 - 4 3 C. Membership and attendance ........................ 5 - 7 3 D. Officers of the Committee ........................ 8 5 E. Cooperation with the International Labour Organization and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ............. 9 - 10 5 II. ACTION BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AT ITS FORTY-SEVENTH SESSION .............................................. 11 - 19 6 A. Annual report submitted by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination under article 9, paragraph 2, of the Convention ........ 12 6 B. Effective implementation of international instruments on human rights, including reporting obligations under international instruments on human rights ..................................... 13 - 19 7 III. CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS, COMMENTS AND INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY STATES PARTIES UNDER ARTICLE 9 OF THE CONVENTION ........................................... 20 - 573 9 A. Status of submission of reports by States parties 20 - 32 9 1. Reports received by the Committee ............ 20 - 25 9 2. Reports not yet received by the Committee .... 26 11 3. Action taken by the Committee to ensure submission of reports by States parties ...... 27 - 32 20 B. Consideration of reports ......................... 33 - 573 21 Ukraine .......................................... 42 - 65 23 Algeria .......................................... 66 - 85 26 -iii- CONTENTS (continued) Paragraphs Page Qatar ............................................ 86 - 99 29 Sudan ............................................ 100 - 127 31 Ecuador .......................................... 128 - 146 36 Central African Republic ......................... 147 - 151 39 Jamaica .......................................... 152 - 161 39 Chad ............................................. 162 - 171 41 Mozambique ....................................... 172 - 177 42 Poland ........................................... 178 - 198 43 Republic of Korea ................................ 199 - 235 46 Zambia ........................................... 236 - 256 51 Iran (Islamic Republic of) ....................... 257 - 277 54 Holy See ......................................... 278 - 305 58 Nigeria .......................................... 306 - 329 61 Viet Nam ......................................... 330 - 358 65 Kuwait ........................................... 359 - 381 69 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland .......................................... 382 - 425 73 Germany .......................................... 426 - 452 81 Bosnia and Herzegovina ........................... 453 - 473 87 Croatia .......................................... 474 - 508 90 Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) ...................................... 509 - 547 95 Tonga ............................................ 548 - 559 101 Papua New Guinea ................................. 560 - 573 103 IV. CONSIDERATION OF COMMUNICATIONS UNDER ARTICLE 14 OF THE CONVENTION ....................................... 574 - 584 105 -iv- CONTENTS (continued) Paragraphs Page V. CONSIDERATION OF COPIES OF PETITIONS, COPIES OF REPORTS AND OTHER INFORMATION RELATING TO TRUST AND NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES AND TO ALL OTHER TERRITORIES TO WHICH GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 1514 (XV) APPLIES, IN CONFORMITY WITH ARTICLE 15 OF THE CONVENTION ....................................... 585 - 588 107 VI. SECOND DECADE TO COMBAT RACISM AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ....................................... 589 - 595 108 VII. WORLD CONFERENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS ..................... 596 - 601 110 VIII. DECISIONS AND GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS ADOPTED BY THE COMMITTEE AT ITS FORTY-SECOND SESSION ........................................ 112 A. Decisions ................................................... 112 1. Further information requested from certain States of the former Yugoslavia ....................................... 112 B. General recommendations ..................................... 112 General recommendation XI (42) on non-citizens .............. 112 General recommendation XII (42) on successor States ......... 113 General recommendation XIII (42) on the training of law enforcement officials in the protection of human rights ..... 113 General recommendation XIV (42) on article 1, paragraph 1, of the Convention .............................................. 114 General recommendation XV (42) on article 4 of the Convention .................................................. 114 General recommendation XVI (42) concerning the application of article 9 of the Convention ................................. 116 General recommendation XVII (42) on the establishment of national institutions to facilitate the implementation of the Convention .................................................. 116 Annexes I. A. States parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (137), as at 20 August 1993 ........................................... 118 B. States parties that have made the declaration under article 14, paragraph 1, of the Convention (18) ............. 122 -v- CONTENTS (continued) Page II. Agendas of the forty-second and forty-third sessions ............ 123 A. Forty-second session ........................................ 123 B. Forty-third session ......................................... 123 III. Prevention of racial discrimination, including early warning and urgent procedures: working paper adopted by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination ............................ 125 A. The need for preventive measures ............................ 125 B. Procedural innovations and other measures which the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination could decide to take with a view to the prevention of racial discrimination . 126 C. Other measures which could be taken within the framework of prevention of racial discrimination ......................... 128 D. Conclusions ................................................. 129 IV. Opinion of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination .................................................. 130 V. Amended rules of procedure ...................................... 137 VI. Letter to the Secretary-General ................................. 140 VII. Letter to the Chairman of the Commission on Human Rights ....... 141 VIII. List of documents issued for the forty-second and forty-third sessions of the Committee ...................................... 143 IX. Documents received by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination at its forty-second and forty-third sessions, pursuant to decisions of the Trusteeship Council and the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, in conformity with article 15 of the Convention ..................................................... 148 X. Country rapporteurs for reports considered by the Committee at its forty-second and forty-third sessions ...................... 149 -vi- LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 20 August 1993 Sir, The period 1992-1993 has been besmirched by new evidence of horrific human rights abuses stimulated by racial and ethnic hatred. These new abuses are further examples of racial discrimination as this is defined in article 1 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Yet they are abuses of a different kind from those envisaged when the Convention was adopted in 1965. The Committee believes it important to call attention to some of the major changes it has observed, not least because some resolutions adopted by United Nations bodies continue to employ phrases that were appropriate in the resolutions of the 1960s and to use the concepts of that era even when they are not the most relevant for addressing the new circumstances. The forms of racial discrimination which in the 1960s were regarded as most abhorrent were those of discrimination by whites against blacks. Racial discrimination was frequently described as caused by the dissemination of doctrines of racial superiority by the institutions of colonial rule and by the policies of racist regimes. The international community could counter these abuses by political means and in this way racial discrimination could be eliminated. In 1993 we contemplate the success of policies initiated in the 1960s. The struggle against colonial rule and racist regimes has been successful even if the consequences of apartheid will continue to give trouble for a long time. New challenges started to emerge at the end of the 1980s with the disintegration of some of the larger political structures, particularly in Eastern Europe, and the weakening of some structures in other regions. It is worth recalling that in the last census in the former Yugoslavia over 1 million persons did not register their membership in any national minority but counted themselves as simply Yugoslavs. Since that time, many of them have been forced by considerations of personal security to align themselves ethnically. With the dissolution of the

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