UN human rights expert hails nuclear deal with Iran, and
calls for the immediate lifting of sanctions
GENEVA (14 July 2015) – The new United Nations Special
Rapporteur on human rights and international sanctions, Idriss Jazairy,
welcomed the nuclear agreement reached between the Islamic Republic of Iran and
the group of P5+1 (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States
and Germany) announced today, and called for the various sanctions and
unilateral coercive measures in force against Iran to be promptly lifted.
“In addition to international sanctions authorized by UN
Security Council resolutions, Iran has been subjected for years to a range of
additional, unilateral coercive measures decided by a number of States
individually or in the framework of various regional organizations,” Mr.
Jazairy said.
“The stockpiling of sanctions and unilateral coercive
measures against Iran, some of which went well beyond what was required by the
Security Council, has had a significant adverse effect on the country’s
economy, its population and ultimately on the enjoyment of human rights of the
people of Iran, including its right to food, its right to health and its right
to development,” the expert noted.
The Special Rapporteur drew special attention to the
“indiscriminate character” of measures such as the ban on the use of
international interbank financial telecommunications, or of measures having the
effect in practice of impeding access to medicine and medical treatment.
“When a group of diverse targeted unilateral coercive
measures converge on the same country, the outcome may become a comprehensive
coercive measure,” Mr. Jazairy explained, stressing the fact that “the
superimposition of unilateral coercive measures on legitimate Security Council
sanctions may distort the purpose of the latter, putting their initial balance
out of kilter.”
The independent expert urged all countries which have
imposed coercive measures on Iran to lift them promptly and with immediate
effect, in line with the commitment contained in the agreement to
comprehensively lift UN Security Council, multilateral and national
nuclear-related sanctions, including steps on access in areas of trade,
technology, finance, and energy.
“I hope this is a vessel of a trend. We are witnesses of
the fact that change is possible,” the Special Rapporteur said referring to the
new developments on lifting sanctions and unilateral coercive measures. “I
believe that this approach should be increasingly considered and that finally
diplomatic negotiated settlements should be given prominence over unilateral
coercive measures.”
The UN Human Rights Council established the new Special
Rapporteur’s mandate in September 2014, in response to increasing concern by
the UN human rights system and the international community about the negative
impact of sanctions, including unilateral coercive measures, on the enjoyment
of human rights, particularly their negative impact on the human rights of the
civilian population of targeted.
ENDS
Mr. Idriss Jazairy was appointed by the Human Rights
Council as the first Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the
unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights. He took office
on 1 May 2015. Mr. Jazairy has extensive experience in the fields of
international relations and human rights with the Algerian Foreign Ministry,
the UN human rights system and international NGOs. He holds a M.A.(Oxford) in
Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and an M.P.A. (Harvard). He also graduated
from the Ecole nationale d’Administration (France). Mr. Jazairy is the author
of books and of a large number of articles in the international press on
development, human rights and current affairs. Learn more, log on to: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/UCM/Pages/SRCoerciveMeasures.aspx
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