The Declaration on Minorities adds the term “national minorities”.

The new Law on National Minorities used the term “national minorities” to cover both.

The term "minority" is used to signify "ethnic-cultural minorities".

The Criminal Code defines a minor in terms of three age groups:

Project participants are women of the pre-retirement age, ethnic minorities, long-term unemployed and other women.

The Constitution of Montenegro uses terms minority nations and other minority national communities.

Mr. Shearer said that including the term “minor” might create more problems than it solved.

He noted that the term “minority” might not be helpful in the Northern Ireland case.

However, these were minor (in terms of expenditures and project magnitude) compared to the security strengthening activities undertaken at Headquarters and at Geneva.

Further complicating the issue surrounding the rights of Gypsies is the concept of Gypsies as a “national minority” - a term which does imply citizenship.