1- تلاحظ اللجنة أن المادة 14 من العهد ذات طبيعة معقدة، وان الجوانب المختلفة لأحكامها تحتاج إلى ملاحظات محددة.
In its general comment No. 6 adopted at its 378th meeting on 27 July 1982, the Human Rights Committee observed that the right to life enunciated in the first paragraph of article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is the supreme right from which no derogation is permitted even in time of public emergency.