APPEAL FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN UNIVERSAL MORATORIUM ON CAPITAL EXECUTIONS IN 1998

We, Parliamentarians of the entire world,

- welcome with a deep satisfaction the growing number of States that have decided to abolish or suspend the death penalty;

- welcome with the same satisfaction the assumption of position and action of the same aim at important supra-national and international institutions, from the European Parliament to the Latin American Parliament, and from the ACP/UE Parity Assembly to the Council of Europe;

- welcome in particular the resolution of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights of April the 3rd, 1997, which represents an important step forward towards the universal recognition of a new human right by affirming that "the abolition of the death penalty constitutes a promotion of the dignity of the individual and a progress for human rights" and by asking the member states to adopt "a moratorium on capital executions in the view of its complete abolition";

Strongly reaffirming the principles and objectives contained in those resolutions,

we, the undersigned Parliamentarians of the entire world,

1. engage ourselves to spread them and to operate with the highest commitment in order to make them obliging in our nations/countries and all over/throughout the world,

2. ask the governments of the Member States of the United Nations to promote and support, in the next meeting of the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva as well as at the United Nations General Assembly, those resolutions that lead to the establishment of an universal moratorium on capital executions in 1998, as a first step towards the total abolition of the death penalty.

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