Treaty on Good Neighbourly Relations, Friendship and Cooperation
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Article 7. The high contracting parties will guarantee the rights of persons belonging to national minorities according to the provisions of UN and CSCE instruments.
The high contracting parties recognize for persons belonging to national minorities and residing on the territory of the other party the right, individually and in community with others, to the free expression, preservation and development of their ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious identity, as well as the rights to be safe from any attempts of assimilation against their will.
Article 8. The high contracting parties support the development of the identity of national minorities by concrete measures such as providing favourable conditions for the activities of educational and cultural institutions, for radio and television programmes in the mother tongue of the minorities in the parts of the country where are concentrated and will assist the other high contracting party in this area.
The high contracting parties will create adequate conditions for the free access of mass media of other Party in the areas inhabited by a dense national minorities population.
Article 9. The concrete topics of cooperation in the field of the rights of
the persons belonging to national minorities which are living on the territory
of the other high contracting Party will be regulated by separate agreements,
taking into consideration the characteristics of Parties’ national legislations
and in accordance with general recognized norms of the international law.