Brussels, 05/04/2000 (Agence Europe) - On 3 April, the Portuguese Presidency made the following declaration on behalf of the EU:
"The European Union considers that the abolition of the death penalty constitutes a significant step to enhance human dignity and progressively develop human rights and reaffirms its objective to work towards its universal abolition or at least the introduction of a moratorium on executions as a first step towards that aim. In this sense, the European Union...