Article 3 of the Spanish Constitution recognizes that the richness of the different linguistic modalities of Spain is a cultural heritage that will be subject to special respect and protection, while establishing that Spanish is the official language of the State and that all Spaniards have the duty to know it and the right to use it. On the other hand, this same article indicates that the other Spanish languages may also be official in the Autonomous Communities according to their respective Statutes. This is a constitutional provision that has been assumed in the Statute of the Basque Country, with respect to the Basque language; in Catalonia, with respect to Catalan and Occitan/Aranese; in Galicia, with respect to Galician; in the Valencian Community, with respect to Valencian; in Navarre, with respect to Basque in the geographical area delimited in the corresponding Law; and in the Balearic Islands, with respect to Catalan. To address this special Spanish characteristic, with a cultural and social reality in which a high percentage of inhabitants reside in territories where more than one language is spoken, both the Autonomous Communities and the General Administration of the State carry out their activity in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution. That is, promoting the respect and protection of Spanish linguistic plurality and guaranteeing the rights of its speakers, and this as an element that generates cultural, social and economic wealth. In order to give effect to this policy, the General Administration of the State has an interministerial coordinating body, the Council of Official Languages in the General Administration of the State, which is entrusted with the functions of analysis, promotion and coordination of the activity of the different ministerial departments in relation to the use of official languages, with the aim of achieving better compliance with the requirements arising from the existence of different official languages and their recognition in the activity of the General Administration of the State, and thus ensuring the best attention to the rights of citizens. In this process of promotion and protection, Spain has ratified the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages, promoted within the framework of the Council of Europe, which means its participation in an evaluation process through the provision of periodic reports to monitor and verify compliance with the commitments made with its ratification.