Luxembourg, 10/04/2001 (Agence Europe) - The General Affairs Council adopted, during its meeting on Monday in Luxembourg, a declaration setting out EU policy on torture and other cruel, inhumane or degrading types of treatment or punishment. Not unlike the guidelines on the death penalty of 1998, the guidelines on torture will provide the EU with an operational instrument for use in contacts with third countries as well as in multilateral fora that deal with human rights. The guidelines,...