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Neue Zürcher Zeitung - Switzerland | 04/02/2008
Romedi Arquint defends minorities right
Romedi Arquint, former President of the Federal Union of European Nationalities, commemorates the 10th anniversary of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities in an essay. He calls for minorities' rights to be defended more firmly: "The convention's essential problem lies in the fact that it builds upon the foundation of the Western European states' concepts of the nation-state. But even in the second half of the 20th century, Western Europe did not succeed in questioning the concept of the nation-state and committing the modern state to a policy of diversity regarding issues of ethnicity. This is evident even in the language used. Whereas Switzerland, as one of the few multinational European states, speaks of communities of language and culture in its legislation, the concept of the national minority is a by-product of the idea of the nation-state. In addition, it comprises only the communities separated from their cultural motherlands by mostly artificial borders, but not the indigenous peoples such as the Romansh people and the Catalans who have no state of their own."
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