"evropuli qartia saqarTvelo "European Charter for Regional or ...

When discussing the "linguistic rights" of ethnic minorities, first
of all, the government must consider the western European vision regarding
differences betweem autochthonous (historical) and new minorities;
In addition, a differentiated attitude is essential towards a language
of each of the following three types of non-historical minorities:
3.1. a language of compactly living diaspora who hold citizenship of a
state;
3.2. a language of a non-compactly residing diaspora who hold citizenship
of a state;
3.3. a language of new migrants without citizenship of a state.
The following languages are considered as those of compacty residing
large ethnic groups of migrants: the Armenian, the Azeri and the
Ossetian. The issue of the Ossetian language is connected with the cosequences
of Russian-Georgian war (the Ossetian language can be endangered
in case it is left within the realm of the Russian empire, as it is
evidenced on the example of the practice in the Norhten Ossetia).
The Armenian and the Azeri languages are not considered to be
treatened: the linguistic rights of the native speakers of these languages
(also, the Kist) will be defended by the Georgian legislation and international
legal documents on "linguistic rights" (The Hague and Oslo recommendations,
etc.). Linguistic rights of the rest of the old migrants are
covered by these and other legal acts 428
.
428 For instance, on the rights of migrants see: International Convention on the Protection
of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
Adopted by General Assembly resolution 45/158 of 18 December 1990:
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/m_mwctoc.htm
The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members
of Their Families will enter into force on 1 July 2003, following Guatemala's ratification of the
treaty last Friday.
http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/B87E9E85C7147498C1256CEF00385E50?op
endocument; http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/m_mwctoc.htm
THE PROTECTION OF TEMPORARY MIGRANTS BY CONVENTIONS OF THE ILO
AND THE UN W.R. Böhning (ILO); Presentation to the Workshop on Temporary migration: Assessment
and practical proposals for overcoming
protection gaps, International Institute for Labour Studies, Geneva, 18-19 September 2003.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inst/download/bohning.pdf;
The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members
of Their Families will enter into force on 1 July 2003, following Guatemala's ratification of the
treaty last Friday.
http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/B87E9E85C7147498C1256CEF00385E50?op
endocument; http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/m_mwctoc.htm;
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