30/09/2003 – The submission includes a brief note on general EU concerns and a set of country reports for EU and candidate countries which will form part of Amnesty International’s report “Concerns in Europe and Central Asia”. Submission to the EU Network of Independent Experts in Fundamental Rights

AMNESTY CALLS ON THE EU: RETAIN KEY EU PERSONNEL ON THE GROUND UNTIL UN FORCE IS FULLY OPERATIONAL

AMNESTY EXHORTE L’UE À MAINTENIR SES FORCES SUR PLACE TANT QUE LA FORCE DE L’ONU N’EST PAS PLEINEMENT OPÉRATIONNELLE

Strengthen policing to protect human rights

On the eve of the summit in Copenhagen between European Union leaders and the Chinese prime minister Zhu Rongji, Amnesty International calls on the EU to put an end to the situation where the so-called dialogue on human rights is in effect a monologue which China ignores. Amnesty International urges the Danish EU Presidency to convey to the Chinese leadership that it will no longer accept a dialogue that produces no results whatsoever.

QUESTIONS FROM AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL TO: JAVIER SOLANA JOSEP PIQUE PER STIG MØLLER CHRIS PATTEN

Click here to link to the Amnesty International report: “Appeal to the European Union and Commonwealth” (AI Index AFR 46/010/2001).

Amnesty International is issuing an urgent appeal to European Union leaders to exert their influence through the Cotonou Agreement, following the arrest yesterday of the head of Amnesty International in Gambia, Mr Lamine Sillah, and 13 others including a leading member of Gambia’s opposition Dr Moudou Manneh.

Amnesty International calls on the European Union to uphold its own human rights principles by raising China’s deteriorating human rights record at the highest level during the EU-China summit in Brussels on Wednesday 5 September.