CAMPAIGN ON THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY: SITUATION COUNTRY BY COUNTRY IN THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

- COUNTRIES THAT HAVE SPONSORED THE RESOLUTION IN 1997 TO WHICH ASK A CONFIRMATION FOR THIS YEAR

Australia (*), Austria, Belgium (*), Bolivia (*), Brazil, Chili, Colombia (*), Costa Rica (*), Croatia (*), Cyprus (*), Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic (*), Ecuador, Estonia (*), Finland (*), France, Germany, Greece (*), Haiti (*), Honduras (*), Hungary (*), Island (*), Ireland, Italy, Latvia (*), Liechtenstein (*), Luxembourg, Malta (*), Marshall Island (*), Netherlands (*), New Zealand (*), Nicaragua (*), Norway (*), Portugal (*), Rumania (*), San Marino (*), Slovakia (*), Slovenia (*), South- Africa, Spain (*), Sweden (*), Switzerland (*), FYROM (*), Uruguay and Venezuela

- COUNTRIES TO WHICH TO ASK FOR THE FIRST TIME THE SPONSORSHIP

(with a representation in Geneva)

Albania (*), Angola (*), Armenia (*), Argentina, Belarus, Bulgaria (*), Canada, Capo Verde, Georgia (*), Israel (*), Lithuania (*), Malawi (*), Mexico, Mozambique, Nepal, Poland, United-Kingdom, Russia, Ukraine,

- COUNTRIES TO WHICH TO ASK FOR THE FIRST TIME THE SPONSORSHIP (without representation in Geneva)

Andorra (*), Cambodia (*), Figi (*), Guinea Bissau (*), Kyrgyz Republic, Mali, Mauritius (*), Micronesia (*), Moldova (*), Monaco (*), Namibia (*), Panama (*), Paraguay (*), Sao Tomè (*), Seychelles (*), Solomon (*), Vanuatu (*),

In this case, one has to ask pre-adhesion and, once tabled the resolution, one has to ask to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of each country or to their permanent mission in New York to send a fax to the Secretary of the Human Rights Commission notifying ones intentions to sponsoring the resolution.

- OTHER COUNTRIES

Tunisia, Senegal, Mexico, Philippines

(*) Countries that are not members of the Commission and that can sponsor the resolution according to article 69, subsection 3, of Rule of Procedures of the Functional Commission of the ECOSOC.