A/HRC/25/3 plan to disseminate a human rights culture in keeping with its treaty obligations. Human rights concepts such as equality, tolerance and justice are being taught at all stages of education. 135. With regard to the right to freedom of expression, Saudi Arabia stated that Islam is the supreme religious and social authority in the Kingdom. Islamic sharia forbids hate speech, vilification of religion, or “religious insult”, and it cannot be said that Kingdom’s refusal to permit what is contrary to Islam constitutes, from the legal standpoint, a violation of freedom of opinion and expression under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 29, paragraph 2, of the Declaration sets limitations on individual rights and freedoms subjecting them to morality, public order or general welfare. This provision is in harmony with article 39 of the Kingdom’s Basic Law of Governance which stipulates that “… all vehicles of expression shall abide by the principles of courtesy and the State’s legislation … shall help to enlighten the Nation, bolster its unity and prohibit anything that is conducive to sedition or disunity, detrimental to the security of the State and its public relations or prejudicial to human rights and dignity”. Freedom of expression is relative and may be subject to restrictions as required by law; by virtue of its awareness of the interests of its people, the State is in the best position to determine the need for any restrictions on freedom of expression. 136. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia rejected fully all false accusations in the statement made by one delegation as it considered them an attempt to conceal the truth about the violations of human rights that have been committed against the Syrian people. The head of delegation emphasized that the Kingdom kept and will keep its doors open to all pilgrims from all countries, without politicizing any requests for hajj; by this he rejected these accusations, such as denying the Syrian pilgrims who have already performed their hajj and are either still in the country or have finished their rituals and are on their way back to their country. The head of delegation also stressed that the Kingdom fulfills its international obligations. 137. Saudi Arabia concluded by emphasizing the importance given to the UPR process and the Kingdom’s commitments in adhering to its international human rights obligations by studying all the comments and recommendations, by responding to them in due time. II. Conclusions and/or recommendations** 138. The following recommendations will be examined by Saudi Arabia which will provide responses in due time, but no later than the twenty-fifth session of the Human Rights Council in March 2014: 138.1. Invite Saudi Arabia to accede to other international human rights instruments (Benin); 138.2. Ratify the main human rights instruments to which it is not yet a party (Togo); 138.3. Continue the study of and the necessary measures to create an adequate climate so as to accede to international human rights instruments to which the country is not yet State party (Cuba); 138.4. Accede to ICCPR (Sweden); 138.5. Accelerate its accession to the ICCPR and ICESCR (Tunisia);1 ** The conclusions and recommendations have not been edited. 13