So, here we go for Article 5. I'd like you guys to return the documents a little bit faster once everyone agrees on the full outcome, how it is handled and the plan we decide to carry on for a complete implementation to reach the ultimate goal.

55. As is already indicated in the preamble, the protection and promotion of regional or minority languages which is the objective of the charter must take place within the framework of national sovereignty and territorial integrity. This article makes explicit in this respect that the existing obligations of the parties remain unchanged. In particular the fact that, by ratifying the charter, a state has entered into undertakings with respect to a regional or minority language may not be used by another state having a special interest in that language or by the users of the language as a pretext for taking any action prejudicial to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of that state.

(French)

55. Comme déjà indiqué dans le préambule, la protection et la promotion des langues régionales ou minoritaires, qui sont l'objectif de la charte, doivent s'inscrire dans le cadre de la souveraineté nationale et de l'intégrité territoriale. Cet article rend explicite, à cet égard, que les obligations existantes des Parties restent inchangées. En particulier, le fait qu'en ratifiant la charte un Etat ait souscrit à certains engagements envers une langue régionale ou minoritaire ne peut servir de prétexte à un autre Etat s'intéressant spécialement à cette langue, ou aux locuteurs de la langue, pour entreprendre une action portant préjudice à la souveraineté et à l'intégrité territoriale de cet Etat.

The Charter couldn't say anything different? But while it does limit the Charter's use to achieve independance it does also reaffirm the target "....the protection and promotion of a regional or minority language..." " ....a state has entered into the undertakings...". Clearly, independance or large autonomy is a political decision that cannot be treated in that kind of document and can only be carried with success once the community is again strong enough and has already rebuilt all the social, business and cultural networks a long life under an exclusive centralised and oppressive state has destroyed.