A/HRC/15/43 Qatar [Original: Arabic] [8 June 2009] 19. The Government of Qatar reaffirmed that unilateral coercive measures were contrary to international law, international humanitarian law, the Charter of the United Nations and the norms and principles governing relations among States and constituted gross violations of human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights, the right to a decent life and the right to development. 20. The Government indicated that Qatar had adopted numerous measures designed to highlight the risk that unilateral coercive measures posed on society as a whole. In the legislative area, the Government underlined that the Constitution of the State of Qatar stipulates that the country’s foreign policy is based on the principle of consolidation of international peace and security through encouragement of the peaceful settlement of international disputes, support for the right of peoples to self-determination, nonintervention in the internal affairs of States and cooperation with peace-loving nations. 21. The Government also reaffirmed the need to give precedence to dialogue and to have recourse in all cases to international law for the settlement of disputes or disagreements at both the regional and international levels. The Government highlighted that in accordance with its belief in these principles, it had offered its services as a mediator in the settlement of international disputes and disagreements, such as in the Lebanese crisis, the dispute between the Sudan and Chad and the current negotiations to address the Darfur issue. 22. The Government highlighted its efforts to sensitize the international community to the risks that such measures posed for human rights, development and free trade, including through numerous international conferences and seminars on the subject as well as by convening the annual Doha Forum on Democracy, Development and Free Trade since 2001. It also hosted the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus in December 2008. Serbia [Original: English] [3 March 2010] 23. The Government of Serbia confirmed that in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the international human rights treaties it had ratified, Serbia did not undertake any legal, administrative and economic coercive measures against any State Member of the United Nations. Slovakia [Original: English] [4 February 2010] 24. The Government of Slovakia stated that it “supports necessary and inevitable unilateral coercive measures which do not contradict international law or international human rights standards”. 5