Brussels, 03/06/2005 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has not discharged its funding - sine July 2004 - of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN). A NGO petition mobilising support for the EMHRN is being circulated on the internet. According to the organisation, which is based in Denmark and brings together numerous human rights organisations from the EU and its Mediterranean partner countries, the affair is due to delays in procedure in the preselection of projects under the European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) for 2004. Its executive director Marc Schade-Poulsen says that the EMHRN has been pre-selected and hopes that the procedure will be concluded rapidly because such delays put the network in a difficult position. The European Commission has been at great pains to point out that it is not a decision to suspend support for the EMHRN, and that support will be given to it if it succeeds in the call for tender.