Text of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities

(in official Council of Europe languages and other languages)

The official versions of this text are those published in English and French, the two official languages of the Council of Europe. The other translations below are presented for information only.

Other languages

  • Albanian (Full text and Explanatory Report)
  • Armenian (Full text and Explanatory Report)
  • Azerbaijani (Full text without the Explanatory Report)
  • Bosnian (Full text without the Explanatory Report)
  • Bulgarian (Full text and Explanatory Report)
  • Catalan (Full text without the Explanatory Report)
  • Croatian (Full text and Explanatory Report)
  • Czech (Full text and Explanatory Report)
  • Danish (Full text without the Explanatory Report)
  • Dutch (Full text without the Explanatory Report)
  • Estonian (Full text and Explanatory Report)
  • Finnish (Full text without the Explanatory Report)
  • Frisian (Full text without the Explanatory Report)
  • Georgian (Full text and Explanatory Report)
  • German (Full text and Explanatory Report)
  • Greek (Full text without the Explanatory Report)
  • Hungarian (Full text and Explanatory Report)
  • Italian (Full text without the Explanatory Report)
  • Latvian (Full text and Explanatory Report)
  • Lezghian (Full text and Explanatory Report)
  • Lithuanian (Full text and Explanatory Report)
  • Macedonian (Full text and Explanatory Report)
  • Norwegian (Full text without the Explanatory Report)
  • Polish (Full text and Explanatory Report)
  • Portuguese (Full text and Explanatory Report)
  • Romani (Full text and Explanatory Report)
  • Romanian (Full text and Explanatory Report)
  • Romansh (Full text without the Explanatory Report)
  • Russian (Full text and Explanatory Report)
  • Sami (Full text without the Explanatory Report)
  • Serbian (Full text and Explanatory Report - cyrillic / Full text and Explanatory Report - latin script)
  • Slovak (Full text and Explanatory Report)
  • Slovenian (Full text without the Explanatory Report)
  • Spanish (Full text and Explanatory Report)
  • Swedish (Full text without the Explanatory Report)
  • Talysh (Full text and Explanatory Report)
  • Turkish (Full text and Explanatory Report)
  • Ukrainian (Full text and Explanatory Report)

Collected texts

The aim of this Collected texts is to provide government experts, representatives of minorities and non-governmental organisations as well as other interested persons with a user-friendly compilation of the basic texts concerning the Framework Convention and its monitoring mechanism.