EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) mongolia

Catherine Ashton welcomes abolition of death penalty

Strasbourg, 16/01/2012 (Agence Europe) - On 13 January, the high representative of the EU for foreign affairs congratulated Mongolia on the “historic decision” of the Mongolian Parliament to ratify, on 5 January 2012, the second optional protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, which follows the moratorium on the use of the death penalty established in January 2010. Catherine Ashton urged the Mongolian authorities...