During the first meeting between the new US administration...

During the first meeting between the new US administration and the representatives of the European Union, EU Council President Anna Lindh, High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana and External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten, urged for abolition of the death penalty in the United States. US Secretary of State Colin Powell replied that the issue is the subject of broad consensus in the United States, and the two candidates to the US Presidency shared it.