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"Mr President, last week, seven people, including a Dutchman called Mr Dick Nicolaas, and a Frenchman, Mr Serge Atlaoui, were sentenced to death in Jakarta for manufacturing XTC and methamphetamine. Brussels has already called Jakarta to account over this and has urged Jakarta to abandon the death sentence and executions. Whilst this shows, of course, that involvement in the drugs trade is most ill-advised – it is best to steer clear of this trade altogether – the death penalty, however, cannot be justified in any way, and this is the message which the European Union has been sending out for years.
Different statistics have shown that things are moving in the right direction, though, as the number of executions worldwide has dropped from 2148 in 2005 to 1591 last year. Nevertheless, it is estimated that 20 000 people are still on death row worldwide. This is why it is of the utmost importance for Europe to continue to pull its weight and do all that it can to get more countries to cross the moratorium line. This applies particularly to South-East Asia where in 2004, Indonesia suspended the moratorium on the death penalty, but the example of the Philippines, which recently abolished the death penalty, is worth following, particularly there."@en1
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