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"Commissioner, thank you for that full substantive answer, which I fully support. I wanted to draw your attention to the kidnapping of a Member of Parliament and minister, Taiseer Najeh Awad al-Mashhandani on Saturday. Sadly another minister, the Deputy Minister for Electricity, Mr Raad al-Hareth, was kidnapped this morning with 19 bodyguards. As I said in my question and as you have commented, many thousands of ordinary Iraqis out of the sight of the media are kidnapped every day.
Kidnapping is a crime that leads also to child slavery, to human prostitution internationally, and to child soldiers, as well as to the miseries you have already commented on in Iraq. I know that the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, which came into being in September 2003, brought out a manual which is being published this year. I believe that this action, which only talks about several hundred kidnappings a year, is simply inadequate in the United Nations.
Can the Commissioner call upon the European Commission delegation to the United Nations, on behalf of all of us, to make very strenuous representations to strengthen the fight by the United Nations against this particularly heinous form of crime?"@en1
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