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On The Ratification Of The Framework Convention For The Protection Of National Minorities

Original Language Title: О ратификации Рамочной конвенции о защите национальных меньшинств

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RUSSIAN FEDERATION FEDERAL LAW On ratification of the Framework Convention on the Protection of National Minorities Adopted by the State Duma on 5 June 1998 Approved On 10 June 1998, the Federation Council, to ratify the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities of 1 February 1995, signed on behalf of the Russian Federation in the city of Strasbourg on 28 February 1996, with the following declaration: " The Russian Federation considers that inclusion in reservations and Statements at the signing or ratification of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities on the unilateral definition of the term "national minority", which is not contained in the Framework Convention. In the view of the Russian Federation, attempts to exclude from the scope of the Framework Convention permanent residents in the territory of the States parties to the Framework Convention of persons who had previously held nationality, but arbitrarily deprived of it, are contrary to the objectives Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities ". President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin Moscow, Kremlin 18 June 1998 N 84-FZ