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"Question No 4 by Nicholson of Winterbourne ()
In recent years Iraq has suffered from a distressingly high number of hostage-takings. Most reported instances are high profile because they involve foreign aid workers, journalists and reconstruction engineers. Yet the number of kidnappings involving foreigners in Iraq is actually very small when compared to the thousands of Iraqis taken hostage. Experts agree that the hostage-taking in Iraq is perpetrated by a large number of criminal and terrorist groups for a multitude of reasons – but more often than not the motivation is financial. Particularly worrying therefore are the recent indications that a number of EU Member States have paid enormous ransoms to criminal and terrorist groups in return for the freedom of kidnapped nationals. The paying of ransoms is a particularly unwelcome and short-sighted step, as far from discouraging hostage-taking, it encourages its proliferation, putting foreigners and Iraqis alike at greater risk.
In this context, what steps can the Council take to establish common guidelines and codes of conduct for EU Member States when they are faced with this threat in Iraq and beyond?"@en1
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