the reports of States, together with the general comments of the Human Rights Committee, centred increasingly on the right to life as a right to life in peace. The German Democratic Republic regarded the safeguarding and strengthening of peace as the central issue of the present time. 12. The right to self-determination ranked first in the International Covenants on Human Rights. That represented a fundamental departure from the bourgeois conception of human rights, which held human rights to be only those of the individual who defended himself against his State. The exercise of the right to self-determination thus took various forms in different countries depending on their political system and national constitution, that point had been expressly mentioned in article 2 of the Covenant regarding its implementation at the national level. The variety of ways in which the right was implemented was also reflected in the reports submitted by countries. Human rights could not be implemented in the abstractJ rather, they were exercised under specific social conditions which were largely determined by a country's history, culture and tradition and by its economic and political system, which, in turn, were greatly influenced by the ; ... A/C.3/39/SR.49 English Page 6 (Mr. Frambach, German Democratic Republic) international political and economic situation. Those aspects had not been given sufficient attention by some experts when discussing reports in the Human Rights Committee. The extent to which the obligations under the Covenants were being enforced could not be measured by the yardstick of bourgeois human rights notions to the exclusion of other concepts. For the socialist States, the implementation of the right of peoples to self-determination and the enjoyment of all other human rights were connected with the abolition of private ownership of the means of production, the liquidation of the economic bases of exploitation of man by man and 
**Analysis**
The text primarily discusses the concept of human rights, specifically the right to life, self-determination, and the implementation of human rights under different social conditions. It highlights the differences between socialist and bourgeois views on human rights, mentioning the abolition of private ownership of the means of production and the liquidation of economic exploitation. These themes suggest that the category is related to social and political issues rather than economic development or natural resources.

**Category**
Humanitarian aid and relief, Education