Parliamentary questions
19 May 2011 E-004926/2011
Question for written answer
to the Council
Rule 117
Sergio Gaetano Cofferati (S&D) , Leonardo Domenici (S&D) , David-Maria Sassoli (S&D) , Francesco De Angelis (S&D) , Roberto Gualtieri (S&D) , Pino Arlacchi (S&D) , Silvia Costa (S&D) , Gianni Pittella (S&D) , Vittorio Prodi (S&D) , Gianluca Susta (S&D) , Guido Milana (S&D) , Mario Pirillo (S&D) , Andrea Cozzolino (S&D) , Patrizia Toia (S&D) , Rita Borsellino (S&D) , Paolo De Castro (S&D) , Pier Antonio Panzeri (S&D) , Luigi Berlinguer (S&D) , Debora Serracchiani (S&D) , Kriton Arsenis (S&D) , Ana Gomes (S&D) , Victor Boştinaru (S&D) , Alejandro Cercas (S&D) , Tanja Fajon (S&D) , Kader Arif (S&D) , Ricardo Cortés Lastra (S&D) , Evgeni Kirilov (S&D) , Ivo Vajgl (ALDE) , Maria Eleni Koppa (S&D) , Nessa Childers (S&D) , Kyriacos Triantaphyllides (GUE/NGL) , Marietje Schaake (ALDE) , Helmut Scholz (GUE/NGL) , Nathalie Griesbeck (ALDE) , John Attard-Montalto (S&D) , Viktor Uspaskich (ALDE) , Giommaria Uggias (ALDE) , Kristiina Ojuland (ALDE) , Gabriele Albertini (PPE) , Clemente Mastella (PPE) , Louis Michel (ALDE) , Marietta Giannakou (PPE) , Spyros Danellis (S&D) , Luís Paulo Alves (S&D) , Kyriakos Mavronikolas (S&D) , Katarína Neveďalová (S&D) , Josefa Andrés Barea (S&D) , George Sabin Cutaş (S&D) and Véronique De Keyser (S&D)
Subject: A new UN Convention against mercenary activities
Mercenary activities are a threat to international peace and security and, like murder, piracy and genocide, constitute a crime against humanity, and the mercenary forces operating in Libya and elsewhere must therefore immediately be stopped.
The UN Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries, which entered into force in 2001, has many weaknesses and was not adopted by those countries from which most mercenaries come.
Could the Council promote the adoption of a more comprehensive and effective international legal instrument, namely a new UN Convention against the use of mercenaries, aimed at forbidding any kind of mercenary activity at global level, and also the use of so-called ‘private military and security companies’ in areas of conflict abroad?
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