E/CN.4/Sub.2/AC.5/2001/2 page 18 Article 7 States should cooperate in order to promote respect for the rights set forth in the present Declaration 78. The cooperation called for in article 7 can be undertaken at the regional and subregional levels, as well as at the level of the United Nations. At the European level, a number of intergovernmental mechanisms and procedures have been established whose purpose, at least partially, is to promote in a peaceful way the rights of minorities and achieve constructive group accommodation. These mechanisms include the Council of the Baltic Sea States and its Commissioner on Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, including the Rights of Persons belonging to Minorities; the OSCE, with its Office of the High Commissioner on National Minorities; and the Council of Europe, which has adopted several instruments of relevance for minorities. In the United Nations, cooperation can take place through the Working Group on Minorities. 79. The treaty bodies, in particular CERD, the Human Rights Committee and the Committee on the Rights of the Child, can also play important roles in this regard. (See also below under article 9.) Article 8 8.1 Nothing in the present Declaration shall prevent the fulfilment of international obligations of States in relation to persons belonging to minorities. In particular, States shall fulfil in good faith the obligations and commitments they have assumed under international treaties and agreements to which they are parties 80. The Declaration does not replace or modify existing international obligations in favour of persons belonging to minorities. It is an addition to, not a substitute for, commitments already made. 8.2 The exercise of the rights set forth in the present Declaration shall not prejudice the enjoyment by all persons of universally recognized human rights and fundamental freedoms 81. The rights of specific categories of persons are supplementary to the universally recognized rights of every person. The Declaration is intended to strengthen the implementation of human rights in regard to persons belonging to minorities, but not to weaken for anyone the enjoyment of universal human rights. Consequently, the exercise of rights under the Declaration must not negatively affect the enjoyment of human rights for persons who do not belong to a minority, nor for persons who belong to the minority. In their efforts to preserve the collective identity of the minority, agencies of the minority concerned cannot on the basis of the Declaration adopt measures which interfere with the individual human rights of any person belonging to that minority.