20/01/2010 (Agence Europe) - In a statement published by High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton on 14 January, the EU welcomes the moratorium on the use of the death penalty announced by Mongolia. The EU encourages Mongolia to commute all existing death sentences to life imprisonment. Ashton says that the death penalty is “a cruel and inhuman punishment, which fails to provide deterrence to criminal behaviour” and represents an “unacceptable” denial of human dignity...