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Mr President, at the Fourth World Congress Against the Death Penalty, held at the end of February in Geneva, the abolitionist movement welcomed the growing number of countries that have abolished or suspended the death penalty. South Korea seemed to have committed itself along those lines, since no executions have been carried out there since December 1997.
The recent decision of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Korea cannot but worry us; we cannot but regret it. We therefore want the Commission and the Council to regard the abolition of the death penalty – a violation of the right to life and a crime of state – as a key element in the European Union’s relations with third countries.
We want them to call on the Korean Government and the President of the Republic, himself sentenced to death in 1981, to make a firm commitment to abolish the death penalty; to decide on a moratorium, pursuant to the UN decision; to voice their concern at the situation of the 59 people, including certain political prisoners, who have been sentenced to death in that country; and to call for their death sentence to be commuted."@en1
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