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PACE president calls for ban on the death penalty

PACE president calls for ban on the death penalty 19 January 2008 - Issue : 765 Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meets Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Rene Van der Linden in Moscow, Russia, January 17, 2008ANA/EPA/ALEXANDER NATRUSKIN/POOL PACE president calls for ban on the death penalty President of the Parliamentary Assembly Rene van der Linde visited Moscow. With this visit Linden?s three year mandate as President of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly comes to an end. During this period cooperation with Russia at parliamentary and governmental levels had been strengthened, he said.The PACE leader invited the Russian president to PACE?s April session and called on Russia to ratify the Sixth Protocol of the European Convention that provides for the ban of the death penalty and the 14th Protocol of the European Convention...continue to full post

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