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"They reaffirm the particular significance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the international Covenants on Human Rights and other relevant international instruments of their joint and separate efforts to stimulate and develop universal respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms; they call on all participating States to act in conformity with those international instruments and on those participating States, which have not yet done so, to consider the possibility of acceding to the covenants."

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OSCE: Concluding Document of the Madrid Meeting of 1980 of Representatives of the Participating States of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, p. 7

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Concluding Document of the Madrid Meeting of 1980 of Representatives of the Participating States of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe

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Laws must be consistent with international human rights.