The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination adopted three decisions this morning concerning its methods of work.
The Committee adopted a text in which it decided not to withdraw, in document CERD/C/365 of 11 February 1999, the so-called "obsolete" General Recommendations, which represented the history and evolving doctrine of the Committee, but to insert in them explicative footnotes with reference to more recent General Recommendations dealing with the same subject.
The Committee also decided to amend and to complete its Guidelines (document CERD/C/70/Rev.4) to add reference to the different pertinent General Recommendations which had not been mentioned and to withdraw the request for information concerning relations with the racist regime of South Africa.
The Committee also adopted a text in which it requested the High Commissioner for Human Rights to include in her plan of action for year 2000 adequate resources which would allow the Committee to cover the costs incurred by its members in their participation in regional seminars before the upcoming World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.
The following Committee Experts participated in the debate: Régis de Gouttes, Mahmoud Aboul-Nasr, Michael Parker Banton, Gay McDougall and François Lonsény Fall.
The Committee will continue its deliberations when it reconvenes at 3 p.m.
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