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UN HIGH COMMISSIONER APPRECIATES STATE HEAD'S DECISION
Ulaanbaatar,/MONTSAME/ The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mrs Navanethem Pillay has appreciated a decision made by the Mongolia's President Ts.Elbegdorj to officially refuse the capital punishment and to change it with 30-year sentence.
Those people who are awaiting the death penalty will be reprieved thanks to this decision. The President called for the legislators of his country to make a step for completely abolishing the capital punishment in Mongolia.
The death penalty is executed under a secret in the country. Nobody has been killed so far from the capital punishment since Ts.Elbegdorj became the State Head of Mongolia in June of 2009.
Mrs Navanethem Pillay states that she congratulates the Mongolia's President on making the decision that will significantly contribute to enhancing the human rights in Mongolia. She spoke that Mongolia has joined a global agreement to abolish the death penalty.
Mrs Navanethem Pillay called for Mongolia to urgently join the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, in order of contributing to the international claim to abolish the capital punishment.
"The step made by Mongolia has a vital importance to be leader in Asia about punishment. Unfortunately, the continent of Asia has been executing it from the biggest number of type of crimes and killed the most people from the death penalty. But, some countries in Asia such Mongolia is pursuing a principal position for it," Mrs Navanethem Pillay stressed.
Nowadays, some 140 countries have been using the death penalty; and 72 countries have jointed the Second Optional Protocol on abolishing the capital punishment, aiming at the abolition of the punishment.
B.Khuder
Those people who are awaiting the death penalty will be reprieved thanks to this decision. The President called for the legislators of his country to make a step for completely abolishing the capital punishment in Mongolia.
The death penalty is executed under a secret in the country. Nobody has been killed so far from the capital punishment since Ts.Elbegdorj became the State Head of Mongolia in June of 2009.
Mrs Navanethem Pillay states that she congratulates the Mongolia's President on making the decision that will significantly contribute to enhancing the human rights in Mongolia. She spoke that Mongolia has joined a global agreement to abolish the death penalty.
Mrs Navanethem Pillay called for Mongolia to urgently join the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, in order of contributing to the international claim to abolish the capital punishment.
"The step made by Mongolia has a vital importance to be leader in Asia about punishment. Unfortunately, the continent of Asia has been executing it from the biggest number of type of crimes and killed the most people from the death penalty. But, some countries in Asia such Mongolia is pursuing a principal position for it," Mrs Navanethem Pillay stressed.
Nowadays, some 140 countries have been using the death penalty; and 72 countries have jointed the Second Optional Protocol on abolishing the capital punishment, aiming at the abolition of the punishment.
B.Khuder
