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64 Appendix F MEMORANDUM SUBMITTED BY THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND THEIR IMPLEMENTATION WITHIN ITS TERRITORY The General Secretariat of the Arab League: 1. The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs received your Memorandum No. 10/6/10/J6/1350 dated 15-6-70 AD in conjunction with a message from Mr. Edward Lowson, Vice-President of the Human Rights Section at the United Nations in connection with the Resolution of the Human Rights Commission No. 14 (25th Meeting) and Resolution No 1421 (46) of the Economic and Social Council, each entitled as follows: "The subject of the implementation of the economic and social rights embodied in 'The International Human Rights Declaration' and the 'International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights'." 2. The Ministry also received along with your Memorandum the following attachments: • A copy of Resolution No. 14 (25th Meeting) taken by the Human Rights Commission on 3/5/1969 AD. • Excerpts from the Report of the 25th Session of the Human Rights Commission. • A copy of the Message of Mr. Henry Mazau, of the office of the Director of Human Rights Section. 3. On studying your Memorandum and the relative enclosures we have come to know the following: a) We are advised that Mr. Manuchehr Janji, a professor of Teheran University, was appointed as Rapporteur in accordance with the two Resolutions mentioned above for the preparation of a study on the implementation of the economic, social and cultural rights in the member countries of the United Nations, which differ in their systems and methods used for the promotion of such rights. b) We have been requested to assist the named Rapporteur and to furnish him with data and observations which can serve the Arab cause.
65 c) Presenting any information we have in connection with this subject particularly from our national legislative system, d) Mentioning the domestic practices we have and which aim at the realization of the implementation of the economic, social and cultural rights. e) Studying the special problems connected with Human Rights in the member states, particularly those effected by foreign factors, so as to submit a report on them to the Human Rights Commission during its 27th Meeting in 1971. 4. In order to assist the named Rapporteur in his task of preparing a comprehensive study on the extent of the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights in the member countries of the United Nations in accordance with the International Human Rights Declaration and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights , we shall speak hereafter about all the points mentioned above and which were requested for his assistance, in spite of the fact that f the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has not joined until now the signatories to either 'The International Human Rights Declaration' or 'The International Covenant on the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights'. Saudi Arabia's failure to join was not, as we shall see, due to its disapproval of the aims of the Declaration and the Covenant which stands for the dignity of man as outlined in their provisions, but: a) Because of our determination to let the dignity of a human person be protected by us without any distinction between one man and another under the impetus of the divine Islamic creed and not by the material law. We are fully convinced that most of the confusions and perversions of the youth of the civilized world have been the result of their loss of the divine creed and their resort to a purely material life in which crimes and perversions have increased in society in proportion to the detachment of such youth from the faith in God. b) Because of our reservations on some of the points mentioned in the Declaration, and the Covenant, for Islam had its own reasoning with regard to the support of the dignity of man, and the protection of human freedom. Our call for peace among all human beings is based on our Islamic principles which have been distorted by both the ignorant and the prejudiced. Adhering to its scientific philosophy which some researchers have failed to penetrate and which is supported with decisive historical facts in respect of this subject, we had to differ in our interpretations of some of the applications of the rules of the Declaration and the Covenant in as far as the points we mentioned before are concerned, and not over the basic principles relating to the dignity of man, his freedom and coexistence among all human beings and which we shall refer to in this Report when we get to them. We shall avoid all superficial propaganda pretensions which proved sometimes that they were not for the service of the dignity of man or his security or his fundamental rights (such as the distinction given to the workers over others in relation to rights, and their empowerment with the right to go on strikes as we shall see later on). HUMAN RIGHTS IN OUR DOMESTIC LEGAL SYSTEM
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