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Annemie Neyts supports universal moratorium on the death penalty (12/02/2007)

 European Liberal Democrat and Reform (ELDR) Party President, MEP Annemie Neyts supports a universal moratorium on the death penalty and congratulates the Italian government for its initiative to restart the debate on this issue at the UN General Assembly. In this view, she has signed the appeal for the adoption of a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty by the General Assembly of the United Nations, launched by MEP Marco Pannella and the Transnational Radical Party. Already 50498 people from 143 countries have signed this appeal on the radical party website (www.radicalparty.org). ELDR encourages its supporters to sign up to this appeal.

“I wholeheartedly support this campaign as the universal abolition of the death penalty is essential to the progress of humanity. I am proud that Europe, under the leadership of Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, will ask for the re-opening of a debate on the death penalty in the UN General Assembly with the aim of achieving a universal moratorium on the death penalty,” stated Annemie Neyts.

On 30th January, Annemie Neyts and Vesna Pusic, Chair of the European Liberal Women Network, sent a letter to the Libyan Leader, Muammar al-Gaddafi, calling on him not to carry out the death sentence and to release the five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor sentenced to death on 19 December 2006 for allegedly infecting Libyan children with HIV.

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For more information, please contact Myriam Cornillet (mcornillet@eldr.org), 00 32 2 237 01 43 or 00 32 485 99 40 56.

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The European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party, aisbl (ELDR Party) brings together 50 political parties with common liberal, democratic and reform ideals and is the forum for member parties to develop a co-ordinated policy.

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