28/06/2005 (Agence Europe) - Following the line of its rapporteur, Jean-Marie Cavada, the president of the public freedoms committee, last Thursday in Brussels, Parliament approved the extension of restrictive measures (notably the freezing of funds and economic resources) imposed by the EU, at the request of the UN Security Council with regard to “certain persons obstructing the peace process and who are not respecting international laws in the conflict in Darfur, Sudan, as well as persons “breaching the arms embargo on the Democratic Republic of Congo”. Parliament, which is supporting this kind of sanction (which does not penalise the people themselves), adopted amendments in both cases which intend to get the Commission to provide preliminary information, on a confidential basis, with regard to setting up a and possibly amending the list of those concerned. Another amendment requests correction of the list “in case of proven error”.