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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10678
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EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) iraq

30/08/2012 (Agence Europe) - EU deeply regrets executions in Iraq. High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton said on Wednesday 29 August that she “deeply regrets” the recent executions of 26 people in Iraq, which brings the number of people executed since the beginning of the year to 96. “The EU calls again on Iraq to cease carrying out executions and to introduce a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, with a view to its abolition”,...