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INTRODUCTION / WORK WITH INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
18 organized by the Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, and continued to submit relevant information to it and to the par- liamentary Committee on Migration, Refugees and Demography which it attends as an observer.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT 1991
The European Community (EC)
During 1990 Amnesty International submitted its concerns on a wide range of countries to the governments of the EC acting within the framework of European Political Cooperation (EPC), to members of the European Parliament and to the EC Commission.
EC member states, meeting in the framework of EPC, adopted joint declarations on the human rights situation in several countries, including China, El Salvador, Iraq/Kuwait, Israel and the Occupied Territories, Myanmar, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa and Sri Lanka. The European Parliament adopted resolutions con- cerning human rights in various countries, including Brazil, China, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Iran, Iraq/Kuwait, Israel and the Occupied Territories, Morocco, Myanmar, Niger, the Philippines, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria and Yugoslavia. It also appointed a rapporteur to prepare a report on the use of the death penalty in the world and condemned executions in Indonesia, Iraq and the USA. In April the European Parliament held a public hear- ing on the human rights situation in Tibet. Amnesty International submitted information about its concerns in Turkey to the EEC-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee; these concerns were raised by members of this Committee during its on-going discussions about Turkey's human rights record.
EC governments and the Joint Parliamentary Assembly composed of represen- tatives from the EC Countries and 68 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states began discussions on the implementation of strengthened provisions on the protection of human rights incorporated in the Fourth ACP-EEC Convention on cooperation and aid (Lomé IV). The Convention was signed in December 1989 but was not in force by the end of 1990. In a resolution adopted in September, the ACP-EEC Joint Parliamentary Assembly called for a three-year moratorium on the application of the death penalty in retentionist states.
During discussions on draft intergovernmental treaties related to harmoniza- tion of asylum and immigration policies in EC countries, Amnesty International raised its concerns with the EC governments, the EC Commission, members of national parliaments and the European Parliament about the implications of these instruments for the protection of refugees and asylum-seekers at risk of human rights violations. A Convention dealing with the state responsible for examining an asylum request was adopted in June but another draft Convention dealing with border controls remained under discussion at the end of the year. A separate agreement, part of which also dealt with border controls, was adopted and signed by the five members of the "Schengen Group" - Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands - in June; Italy also signed this agreement in November. The European Parliament adopted two resolutions in March and June expressing concern at the lack of essential
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