ICDP PRESIDENT APPRECIATES STEP OF MONGOLIA

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia /MONTSAME/  A head of the International Commission against Death Penalty (ICDP) Mr. Federico Mayor has sent a letter to the State Head Ts. Elbegdorj appreciating a decision of Mongolia to ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty.


Mr. Mayor thanks the Mongolian President for sending a letter to Ambassador Rafael Valle Garagorri, the president of the Support Group of the ICDP, with a proposal of a bill by the Mongolian Parliament to ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Mr. Mayor appreciates Elbegdorj's "vital step to strengthen the tendency of abolishing the capital punishment around the world", "and the above proposal of the Mongolian parliament will receive a support at the international arena," he writes. He proposes that Mongolia urgently amends the Criminal law in order to implement international standards, and expresses a readiness to help Mongolia in doing it.

Mr. Mayor hopes that Mongolia will become one of the capital punishment-free countries, and that Mongolia's step will significantly contribute to aspiring of other countries to abolish the death penalty.

B.Khuder

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