text: UNITED NATIONS Economic and Social Council COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Distr. GENERAL E/CN.4/Sub.2/1990/SR.8 16 August 1990 Original: ENGLISH SUB-COMMISSION ON PREVENTION OF DISCRIMINATION AND PROTECTION OF MINORITIES Forty-secon~ session SUMMARY RECORD OF THE 8th MEETING Held at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, on Monday, 13 August 1990, at 4 p.m. Chairman: Mr. TURK later:• Mrs. ATTAH CONTENTS Protection of Minorities (continued) Elimination of racial discrimination (continued) (a) Measures to combat racism and racial discrimination and the role of the Sub-Commission (continued) This record is subject to correction. Corrections should be submitted in one of the working languages. They should be set forth in a memorandum and also incorporated in a copy of the record. They should be sent within one week of the date of this document to the Official Records Editing Section, room E.4108, Palais des Nations, Geneva. Any corrections to the records of the public meetings of the Sub-Commission at this session will be consolidated in a single corrigendum, to be issued shortly after the end of the session. GE.90-12686/2261B E E/CN.4/Sub.2/1990/SR.8 page 2 The meeting was called to order at 4.20 p.m. PROTECTION OF MINORITIES (agenda item 18) (continued) (E/CN.4/Sub.2/1990/46; E/CN.4/1990/41; E/CN.4/Sub.2/1989/43) 1. Mr. EIDE, introducing his progress report (E/CN.4/Sub.2/1990/46), noted that the Sub-Commission's role in respect of protection of minorities had been rather modest; that was because it was difficult to find ways of dealing with so complex a subject. Article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights etablished minimum rights for minorities; the question was whether it would be possible and useful to go beyond that article and, if so, how to do so. The growing importance of the problem had been illustrated by a statement made by the Romanian representative at the forty-sixth session of 
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