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No. 1048

TO V.V.BORSHEV,

MEMBER OF STATE DUMA (PARLIAMENT) OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Esteemed Valeriy Vasilievitch,

On your inquiry concerning a position of the Russian Federation about the introduction of the universal moratorium of capital executions we inform that on 54-th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (March - April of this year) Russia was among the 65 of the co-authors of the resolution called "A question of the death penalty", which, in particular, contains the call-up to states to establish the moratorium on executions.

In case of consideration of this question on the next UN General Assembly session, Russian Federation is also going to support the appropriate resolution.

T.Ramishvili,

Head of the Department on International Humanitarian Cooperation and the Human Rights.