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Note verbale dated 16 April 2013 from the Permanent Mission of Egypt to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

By United Nations, on 8 September 2020

Moratorium



The permanent missions to the United Nations in New York listed below have the honour to refer to General Assembly resolution 67/176, entitled “Moratorium on the use of the death penalty”, which was adopted by the Third Committee on 19 November 2012, and subsequently by the General Assembly on 20 December 2012 by a recorded vote. The permanent missions wish to place on record that they are in persistent objection to any attempt to impose a moratorium on the use of the death penalty or its abolition in contravention of existing stipulations under international law, for the following reasons:




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Afghanistan

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Antigua and Barbuda

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Bahrain

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Bangladesh

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Barbados

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Botswana

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Brunei Darussalam

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Chad

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China

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Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

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Egypt

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Equatorial Guinea

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Eritrea

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Eswatini

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Ethiopia

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Grenada

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Guyana

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India

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Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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Iraq

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Jamaica

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Kuwait

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Lao People’s Democratic Republic

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Libya

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Malaysia

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Mauritania

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Myanmar

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Nigeria

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Oman

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Pakistan

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Papua New Guinea

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Qatar

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Saint Kitts and Nevis

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Saint Lucia

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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Saudi Arabia

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Singapore

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Solomon Islands

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Somalia

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Sudan

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Syrian Arab Republic

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Tonga

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Trinidad and Tobago

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Uganda

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United Arab Emirates

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Yemen

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Zimbabwe

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In 2007, the World Coalition made one of the most important decisions in its young history: to support the Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty as a step towards universal abolition. A moratorium is temporary suspension of executions and, more rarely, of death sentences. […]