A/76/369 on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. In addition, it reported that it is actively working to implement recommendations in the concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. 30. The Government stated that there are no strict measures to regulate hate speech in the media and that the State Committee for National Security monitors nationalist rhetoric in the public discourse and issues warnings identifying th e possible consequences. The Government reaffirmed that the fight against racism, xenophobia, intolerance and discrimination is firmly enshrined in national policy and based on the principles of equality and non-discrimination. The Government reported on the implementation of the Concept of Strengthening the Unity of the People and Interethnic Relations and the work of the State Agency for Local Self -Government and Interethnic Relations. It also reported on the transfer of the functions of the Agency-created system for early response and prevention of interethnic conflicts to the Ministry of Culture, Information, Sports and Youth Policy. In addition, it reported the establishment of a system for an early response to conflicts, as well as of the monitoring centre for the prevention of inter-ethnic violence. The monitoring centre has developed an interactive electronic map of zones of potential conflict and has conducted preventive work and issued recommendations for the adoption of appropriate preventive measures. Qatar 31. The Government of Qatar reported that it has established the principle of equality and non-discrimination in its Constitution, namely in articles 18, 34 and 35, which govern all State institutions and agencies and require that they refrain from any act or practice that involves discrimination and from encouragement or protection of discrimination regardless of the party that conducts the action or practice. All Qatari citizens and residents enjoy rights and freedoms guaranteed in chapter III of the Constitution without any discrimination based on sex, origin, language or religion. 32. Article 35 of the Constitution prohibits discrimination in general, including racial discrimination, and the term “origin” contained in this article is a comprehensive word that includes race, colour and national or ethnic origin. This article also contains the term “people” to guarantee the application of the principle of non-discrimination to society without distinction between a citizen and a resident or between a man and a woman. 33. This constitutional principle is also reflected in the various State laws regulating civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. The Government of Qatar believes that if some laws contain an exception, restriction or diffe rentiation between citizens and non-citizens based on nationality, this is an objective criterion, which is not considered racial discrimination. 34. Qatar referred to several international human rights instruments, as well as International Labour Organization conventions in relation to the elimination of discrimination, including the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child; International Labour Organization Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111); and the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. 35. Qatar also referred to legislation adopted in order to fulfil i ts international obligations arising from the international conventions and instruments to which it is 21-13874 9/16