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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7938

4 April 2001
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/un/human rights
EU pleads in favour of abolition of death penalty and regrets inadequate progress in China and Turkey

Brussels / Geneva, 03/04/2001 (Agence Europe) - In a very lengthy statement, in the framework of the 57th session of the United Nations' Commission on Human Rights, and to which 10 countries of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Cyprus and Malta associated themselves, Swedish Ambassador Johan Molander set out the European Union's stance on the violation of fundamental freedoms perpetrated in some fifty regions and countries, including China and Turkey. He also called on the members of...

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