Pasqualina Napoletano, European elected member of the...

Pasqualina Napoletano, European elected member of the Democratici di Sinistra, expressed indignation about the fact that the Italian Presidency had renounced presenting to the UN a proposal of resolution on a moratorium on the death penalty. Ms Napoletano recalled that Silvio Berlusconi had undertaken to do so on 2 July in Strasbourg before the European Parliament, and that the Parliament adopted, on 23 October, a resolution insisting on such an initiative.