10. Implementation of the Council decision on the moratorium against death penalty (debate)

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Council statement: Implementation of the Council decision on the moratorium against death penalty

Manuel Lobo Antunes (President-in-Office of the Council) made the statement.

The following spoke: Laima Liucija Andrikienė, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Martin Schulz, on behalf of the PSE Group, Marco Pannella, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Konrad Szymański, on behalf of the UEN Group, who spoke on Martin Schulz's remarks, Monica Frassoni, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Luisa Morgantini, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Jean-Claude Martinez, on behalf of the ITS Group, Irena Belohorská, Non-attached Member, Maria da Assunção Esteves, Pasqualina Napoletano, Hélène Flautre, Piia-Noora Kauppi, Józef Pinior, Ana Maria Gomes, Genowefa Grabowska, Manuel Lobo Antunes, Martin Schulz, who made a personal statement in response to Konrad Szymański's remarks, and Monica Frassoni, who put a question to the Council, which was answered by Manuel Lobo Antunes.

Motions for a resolution to wind up the debate tabled pursuant to Rule 103(2):

- Laima Liucija Andrikienė, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, on implementation of the Council decision on the moratorium on the death penalty (B6-0357/2007);

- Pasqualina Napoletano, Raimon Obiols i Germà, Elena Valenciano Martínez-Orozco and Józef Pinior, on behalf of the PSE Group, on a universal moratorium on the death penalty (B6-0358/2007);

- Marco Cappato, Marco Pannella, Frédérique Ries, Sarah Ludford and Marios Matsakis, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on the initiative for a universal moratorium on the death penalty (B6-0359/2007);

- Hélène Flautre, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Milan Horáček, Monica Frassoni and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the implementation of the Council decision relating to a moratorium on the death penalty (B6-0360/2007);

- André Brie, Luisa Morgantini, Vittorio Agnoletto and Willy Meyer Pleite, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the EU Council's strategy for the adoption of a UNGA resolution on an international moratorium on capital punishment (B6-0361/2007).

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 27.09.2007, Item 9.3.