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Statement by Mr. Nicolas Michel

Statement by Mr. Nicolas Michel I NTERNATIONAL O RGANIZATIONS L AW R EVIEW www.brill.nl/iolr [Check against delivery] Statement by Mr. Nicolas Michel, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, The Legal Counsel At the Ministerial meeting on “Death penalty” (Organized by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Italy and Portugal) Friday, 28 September 2007, 8.30am, Conference Room 4 Minister D’Alema, Minister Amado, Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Excellencies, Representatives of Civil Society and the NGO community, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am honoured to represent the Secretary-General, at today’s Ministerial meeting on the question of the death penalty. I am making my statement in my capacity as the Legal Counsel of the United Nations. Already on 8 December 1977, the General Assembly reaffirmed that the main objective to be pursued in the field of capital punishment is that of progressively restricting the number of offences for which the death penalty may be imposed with a view to the desirability of abolishing this punishment. While the General Assembly set out a clear direction in that resolution ensuing discussions have not lead to tangible results yet. However, in the area of interna- tional law there has been advancement in the trend towards limiting and eventually abolishing the death penalty. The http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Organizations Law Review Brill

Statement by Mr. Nicolas Michel

International Organizations Law Review , Volume 4 (2): 384 – Jan 1, 2008
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© 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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I NTERNATIONAL O RGANIZATIONS L AW R EVIEW www.brill.nl/iolr [Check against delivery] Statement by Mr. Nicolas Michel, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, The Legal Counsel At the Ministerial meeting on “Death penalty” (Organized by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Italy and Portugal) Friday, 28 September 2007, 8.30am, Conference Room 4 Minister D’Alema, Minister Amado, Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Excellencies, Representatives of Civil Society and the NGO community, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am honoured to represent the Secretary-General, at today’s Ministerial meeting on the question of the death penalty. I am making my statement in my capacity as the Legal Counsel of the United Nations. Already on 8 December 1977, the General Assembly reaffirmed that the main objective to be pursued in the field of capital punishment is that of progressively restricting the number of offences for which the death penalty may be imposed with a view to the desirability of abolishing this punishment. While the General Assembly set out a clear direction in that resolution ensuing discussions have not lead to tangible results yet. However, in the area of interna- tional law there has been advancement in the trend towards limiting and eventually abolishing the death penalty. The

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