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TODAY, we can hardly overestimate the role of integration communities in strengthening the safeguards of human rights and freedoms that are constantly being tested, challenged and threatened in our turbulent world. The Council of Europe, established on May 5, 1949, in response to the disastrous shocks of World War Two caused primarily by massive and cynical violations and even destruction of human rights, plays the leading role on the European continent. It remains the most respected international entity for setting standards for the rule of law, human rights, democratic development and cultural interaction.
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