FRANCE

General Comments - Government Responses

CERD A/37/18

Annex IV

Comments of States parties on General Recommendation VI adopted by the Committee at its 569th meeting, on 15 March 1982 a/

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FRANCE

[Original: French]

[21 May 1982]

The French Government approves this decision, and its delegation will not fail to raise the matter under the relevant agenda item at the next session of the General Assembly; the French delegation will point out that measures should perhaps be envisaged but that it would not seem possible for them to be more than recommendations to States parties as a whole, otherwise the authority of the General Assembly, in going beyond making such recommendations, might be challenged.

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            a/ See chap. IV, part A. para. 45, above [concluding observations, CERD A/37/18].