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Declaration of the Committee of Ministers on the Resolution on a moratorium on the death penalty at the United Nations

21/11/2012

Déclaration du Comité des Ministres sur la Résolution sur un moratoire sur la peine de mort aux Nations Unies
Committee of Ministers 
Strasbourg, 21 November 2012 - The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe welcomes the adoption by an unprecedented number of States within the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly of a draft Resolution calling for a global moratorium on the use of the death penalty.
 

 

 

 

 

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