MORATORIUM. D’ELIA (RNP), NON VIOLENT CONTINUES STRUGGLE SO THAT WORDS BECOME FACTS

“It was fortunate that Parliament gathered to be informed on the status of the initiative for the UN Moratorium,” announced Sergio D’Elia, Rosa nel Pugno Radical Parliamentarian and Secretary of Hands
Off Cain. He said this after the Government hearing before the Foreign Affairs Commissions of the Parliament and the Senate. An extraordinary meeting was called thanks to the intervention of President Franco Marini and Fausto Bertinotti and the two Presidents of the Foreign Affairs Commission Lamberto Dini and Umberto Ranieri, after accepting my request.”
On September 2, 2007, our concerns forced us to restart our non-violent initiative of an indefinite hunger strike. Our concerns were softened, in part, by the definite commitment of the Council President and Farnesina in the past few days, which confirms the importance and usefulness of our non-violent hunger strike. The Italian commitment has recently been rendered concrete.”
“First of all, the final definition of the resolution text must contain a priority reference to the request for the Moratorium, rather than for the abolition of the death penalty.”
“Secondly, the Portuguese Presidency must keep its commitment to submit the Resolution at the opening of the General Assembly on September 24, along with Italy and the other representative countries, as was decided by the Council of General Affairs on June 18.” “It was a decision that the bureaucracy in Brussels had already debated, foreseeing the submission of the Resolution in October with a stronger emphasis on the request for abolition rather than for the Universal Moratorium on capital punishment.”