A/HRC/6/2 page 3 2. On the subject of human rights and unilateral coercive measures, the Government indicated that 311 persons had been subject to enforced disappearance and were being held in prison in Israel and Syria. It noted that a committee had been established to examine the files of the persons subjected to enforced disappearance and to address the issue with the Syrian authorities. Georgia [Original: English] [9 May 2007] 1. In its response, the Government indicated that it denounces the use of any coercive unilateral measures that contradicts fundamental principles of international law and expressed concerns with respect to a number of coercive measures which, according to the Government, have been taken against Georgia by the Russian Federation since December 2005. 2. According to the Government, these measures included: (a) the prohibition of imports of vegetative products from Georgia without any valid explanation; (b) the prohibition of trade of Georgian wine and mineral water products on the territory of the Russian Federation; (c) the closure of the only legal border check point (“Kazbegi - Zemo Larsi”) between Georgia and the Russian Federation, in violation of the Agreement of 8 October 1993 between the two countries; (d) the initiation of a complete economic blockade, including the abolition of air, automobile, naval, railway and postal communications, and a failure on the part of authorities of the Russian Federation to protect Georgian diplomatic missions against aggressive actions; (e) military manoeuvres by the Russian Federation in Georgia’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the vicinity of Georgian territorial waters, in violation of the right of Georgia as a coastal State to exercise its sovereign interests and jurisdiction in its EEZ; (f) suspension of issuance of visas without any explanation; (g) collective expulsion of more than 6,000 Georgian citizens from the Russian Federation since October 2006, with the persons subject to deportation often having their procedural rights ignored or violated and being subject to inhuman and degrading treatment in detention cells. 3. The Government indicated that the Russian Federation has implemented a discriminative policy towards ethnic Georgians and Georgian nationals residing within its territory, including requiring secondary schools to report to the police the list of students who had Georgian surnames and, in some instances, requesting teachers to submit information regarding the moral behaviour of the Georgian students towards other students and teachers. 4. The Government noted that it has tried to resolve the crisis and to prevent the continuation of coercive measures by peaceful means, including by informing relevant international organizations about the acts carried out by the Russian Federation and lodging an inter-State application to the European Court of Human Rights. Romania [Original: English] [10 May 2007] 1. In its response, the Government indicated that Romania had not been confronted with any situation regarding the implementation of unilateral punitive measures.