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"Mr President, opposition to the death penalty plays a central role in the Union’s policy on human rights. In June 1998, the Council established guidelines on EU policy relating to the death sentence in third countries. It is a fundamental aim of the Union that the death penalty should be abolished world-wide. To achieve this aim, the Council is urging those countries still applying the death sentence to agree to establish a moratorium on capital punishment, and is calling for compliance with minimum standards. In addition, it is inviting them to embrace international legal instruments banning the death penalty.
In compliance with its guidelines, the EU proposed, as an initiative, for the first time a draft resolution on the death penalty at the 55th sitting of the Commission on Human Rights at Geneva this year. The initiative was a great success, being in content more radical than former resolutions and, in addition, there were more who were jointly proposing it – 72, in fact – than in 1998, when there were 65. The Union also organised a panel discussion at the sitting on capital punishment, in which NGOs and government representatives of different countries took part. The Council has just decided to continue with its policy to take up the subject of the death penalty in a multilateral forum, and it decided for the first time to propose a draft resolution on capital punishment during the 54th session of the UN General Assembly. The Council believes that the Union initiative will strengthen the international trend towards abolishing the death penalty."@en1
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