2. Sovereignty also implies the obligation of the State to respect and to ensure the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms of all persons within its territory and subject to its jurisdiction, including the rights and freedoms of persons belonging to national minorities. The respect for and protection of minority rights is primarily the responsibility of the State where the minority resides. Since the Second World War, a legal regime has been developed following the principle that protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including those of persons belonging to national minorities, is the responsibility of the State that has jurisdiction over the persons concerned. Under international law, therefore, States are obliged to secure to everyone within their jurisdiction the enjoyment of human rights and freedoms, including minority rights. This responsibility to protect is included in, among others, the Helsinki Final Act (Principle VII, para.4), the 1950 European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (hereinafter: “ECHR”) (Article 1), and with regard to national minorities in particular, in the 1966 UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (hereinafter: “ICCPR”) (Article 27), the UN Declaration on Minorities (Article 1(1)), the CSCE Copenhagen Document (paragraphs 33(1) and 36(2)) and the FCNM (Article 1). Consequently, the protection of minority rights is primarily but not exclusively the responsibility of the State where the minority resides: it is also a matter of legitimate concern for the international community, as further elaborated in Recommendation 3 below. The preservation of peace and stability requires that persons belonging to minorities are treated and protected in an integrated way to the extent that their special status and situation allows this. The fundamental link between protection and promotion of minority rights and the maintenance of peace and stability has been emphasized a number of times by the OSCE participating States, beginning with Principle VII of the Decalogue of the Helsinki Final Act. This link has been reiterated in subsequent documents such as the 1983 Concluding Document of Madrid (Principle 15), the 1989 Concluding Document of Vienna (Principles 18 and 19) and the 1990 Charter of Paris for a New Europe, as well as in the OSCE’s Summit Documents, including the 1990 Copenhagen Document (Part IV, paragraph 30), the 1992 Helsinki Document (Part IV, paragraph 24) and the 1996 Lisbon Document (Part I, Lisbon Declaration on a Common and Comprehensive Security Model for Europe for the Twenty-First Century, paragraph 2). A more specific link is established, inter alia, in the preamble to the 1992 UN Declaration on 10 Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations