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Madam President, I endorse what the President-in-Office Council has just said. I think there is widespread consensus in this House and between all the EU institutions on the substance of today’s debate and where we want to go, but sometimes we have to see what the next tactical step is.
I want to clarify that the Commission is certainly favourable to the introduction of a moratorium as an important intermediate step towards the complete abolition of the death penalty. We of course support the Italian initiative and Parliament’s motion for a resolution, but we have to see – and this is at stake – the tactical nature. How can we ensure that the planned UN General Assembly initiative will be successful? We need to ensure very good preparation. We have to reach out to all the UN members, and we need pertinent timing for the launch of the initiative of such a worldwide moratorium.
We are also quite active not only at UN level, but also at bilateral level; we try to do that be it in China or Peru. I have, for instance, written to the Peruvian President to express our deep concerns, and hopefully there is still a chance to block it.
I would also like to thank Parliament, because it also has possibilities. It has used them in the past, and maybe it can use them even more by talking to the different delegations. Very often, as I said before, it is a domestic issue, and the more Parliament can talk to parliaments, the better we can influence this."@en1
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