A/HRC/15/43 I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 12/22, in which the Council requested the Secretary-General to submit to the Council, at its fifteenth session, an analytical report on the impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights. 2. On 8 January 2010, the Secretary-General sent a note verbale to Member States seeking their views and information. As at 12 March 2010, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights had received responses, summarized below, from the Governments of Argentina, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Jamaica, Serbia, Slovakia and the Russian Federation. Responses received from the Governments of Algeria and Qatar for the twelfth session of the Human Rights Council on the same item and which were not included due to their late submission are also included. The full text of the submissions is available from the Secretariat. II. Responses from Governments Algeria [Original: French] [3 July 2009] 3. The Government of Algeria stated that unilateral coercive measures were contrary to international law, international humanitarian law, the Charter of the United Nations and the norms and principles governing peaceful relations among States. It further indicated that the adoption of unilateral coercive measures constituted a violation of human rights, in particular of the right to dignified life and the right to development, and a violation of the sovereignty of other States. 4. The Government underlined that economic, social and cultural rights of populations guaranteed under the International Covenants were violated by unilateral coercive measures with a negative impact on well-being, development and international cooperation. It also pointed out that unilateral coercive measures created obstacles to free trade relations among sovereign States and, as a result, impeded full enjoyment of all human rights, as reiterated at the World Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna in 1993. 5. The Government affirmed that Algeria respected the principles of international law and subscribed to the Charter of the United Nations, declarations and relevant resolutions adopted by the United Nations, and in particular to the Human Rights Council resolutions on human rights and unilateral coercive measures. It also indicated that with respect to the sovereignty, equality and non-interference in domestic affairs of other States, the right of all peoples to self-determination and their free choice of their political, economic, and cultural system constituted the core principles of the foreign policy of Algeria. 6. The Government was of the view that unilateral coercive measures were not favorable to peaceful and friendly international relations or to guaranteeing to peoples their inalienable right to development. The extraterritorial application of national laws disturbed international peace and security. The Government also requested the Secretary-General to give special attention to the implementation of the resolutions of the Human Rights Council on this issue in the light of the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of human rights, including the right to development. 2