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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8023

9 August 2001
Contents Publication in full By article 12 / 15
(eu) eu/council of europe

08/08/2001 (Agence Europe) - Last week, Council of Europe Secretary General Walter Schwimmer expressed his satisfaction following adoption by the American House of Representatives of a bill aimed at prohibiting the cloning of human beings. This bill, which has the backing of President Bush, "is in accordance with the principles and proposals of our Organisation, embodied in the Biomedicine Convention and its Additional Protocol prohibiting cloning", declared Schwimmer. "As the Council of...