Georgia slow in ratifying European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Georgia slow in ratifying European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Georgia,slow,in,ratifying,European,Charter,for,Regional,and,Minority,Languages"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">16-12-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Georgia slow in ratifying European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Geneva, Switzerland (ReliefWeb): With regard to the Council of Europe legal instruments that Georgia had to sign and/or ratify before September 2005: only the European Social Charter was ratified within the set deadline (on 22 August 2005) and the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities was ratified by Parliament with a slight delay, on 13 October 2005. The European Outline Convention on Transfrontier Cooperation between Territorial Communities or Authorities was signed, but has not yet been ratified. Regretfully, the procedure for signing and ratifying the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages has only just started. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/HMYT-6K4RTZ?OpenDocument " target="blank">www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/HMYT-6K4RTZ?OpenDocument </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show