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Thursday 03 Dec 2015 - 12:48 Makkah mean time-21-2-1437
UN rights expert Idriss Jazairy (UN Photo)
Geneva (IINA) – UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and International Sanctions Idriss Jazairy on Tuesday urged states to review their unilateral coercive measures imposed on Sudan over the past two decades, “given the developments taking place in the country since the imposition of the sanctions regimes”, UN News Center reported.
In a press statement issued by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Jazairy called for the limitation in scope and time of such measures and their linking to achieving specific purposes, at the end of his first official visit to Sudan to assess their adverse impact on the enjoyment of human rights.
Referring to the recent tightening of international financial transfers with Sudan after the record fines imposed on European banks for having done business with the country, he said that the “signal given by compulsory measures is in contradiction with their proclaimed objectives.”
Further, the Special Rapporteur welcomed the exemptions introduced for vital supplies but indicated that they remain to be activated by lifting constraints on financial transfers needed to make the exemptions effective.
“Sanctions do not affect officials and elites. Their full impact is on innocent populations, and they contribute to social stratification, inter-regional disparities and to the broadening of the black market, as well as to the loss of control over financial transfers,” Jazairy explained, while noting that Sudan is one amongst few countries still under comprehensive unilateral coercive measures.
He deplored the absence of detailed surveys and studies to be undertaken by independent sources, and called for cooperation of a technical nature between OHCHR and relevant UN agencies to develop parameters to enable the assessment of the separate impact of unilateral coercive measures on human rights violations.
“A comprehensive assessment of the situation in Sudan is a two-track process that should take into account the domestic and the external factors affecting the overall human rights situation,” Jazairy said.
The rights expert called for the “gradual removal of the restrictions imposed on the financial transfers relating to business deals”. He also suggested engaging international donors and creditors to restructure Sudan’s crippling external debt, in line with resolution No. 539 (2015) of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union calling for "comprehensive debt relief, the lifting of sanctions against Sudan and development support for South Sudan."
During his visit to Khartoum, Jazairy also interacted with representatives of UN agencies and regional organizations in addition to members of the diplomatic community from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas present in Sudan, to gather relevant information, in order to present a comprehensive report of his visit to the UN Human Rights Council in September 2016.
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