06/03/2002 (Agence Europe) - The European Bureau of Lesser Used Languages (EBLUL) chaired by Bojan Brezigar, organised a meeting ten days ago in Bilbao between the Basque government and a High Level Group of Experts in the aim of making proposals to promote linguistic diversity and the lesser-used languages in the revised EU treaties. A press release states that the experts gathered on this occasion have a long experience in minority rights within the field of the UN, the OSCE and the Council of Europe. These proposals "would give the European Union the instruments to deal with cultural and linguistic diversity, while maintaining the legislative competence with the Member States", explained Mr Brezigar. Proposals will be discussed in a wider circle of minority experts, to be presented to the members of the Convention on the Future of Europe.