A significant outcome of the meeting was the establishment of a Drafting Committee tasked with ensuring uniformity of terminology throughout the text of the draft convention, harmonizing the versions in the official languages of the United Nations and reporting on the results of its work to the Ad Hoc Committee.
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Vishinsky said that the Danubian countries ( the USSR now being one of them as a result of reclaiming its old province of Bessarabia ) would draw up a convention and put it into force " regardless of the minority opinion . " For this purpose, the Soviet Union introduced a draft convention.
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The eventual compromise, forced by the Arab nations'political opposition to treating religious intolerance at the same time as racial intolerance plus other nations'opinion that religious intolerance was less urgent, was for two resolutions, one calling for a declaration and draft convention aimed at eliminating racial discrimination, the other doing the same for religious intolerance.
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The initiative in producing a legally binding human rights agreement had already been taken by the International Council of the European Movement, an organisation whose cause had been championed by Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan, and whose international juridical section ( counting Lauterpacht and Maxwell Fyfe amongst its members ) had produced a draft convention.
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As the world continues to hail the landmark Oslo conference convened to approve a draft convention banning antipersonnel land mines, the U . S ., Russia, China, India and Pakistan, the prime users of land mines, still stand on the sidelines unperturbed by the implication of their refusal to go along with the international consensus against the manufacture of land mines.
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Throughout the existence of the IUOTO, close ties had been established between the organization and the United Nations ( UN ) and initial suggestions had the IUOTO becoming part of the UN . However, following the circulation of a draft convention, consensus held that any resultant intergovernmental organization should be closely linked to the UN but preserve its " complete administrative and financial autonomy ".
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The OAU Secretariat received the completed draft in 1999, and in 2000 at Addis Ababa it was merged with the Draft Convention on Traditional Practices in a joint session of the Inter African Committee and the ACHPR . After further work at experts meetings and conferences during 2001, the process stalled and the protocol was not presented at the inaugural summit of the AU in 2002.
