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Belgian Senate unanimously calls on EU to remove PMOI from terror list |
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Friday, 23 December 2005 |
 Rajavi: Senate resolution is the voice of Belgian and European people’s conscience
Adoption of firm policy on Iranian regime is urged
NCRI - The Belgian Senate unanimously approved a resolution This afternoon,
expressing deep concern for “violations of human rights and fundamental
liberties” and “public executions, suppression and inhuman punishments,
arbitrary arrests, physical and psychological torture, assassination of
dissidents and political prisoners, persecution of differing opinions,
discrimination against women, and religious and ethnic minorities, and
the attacks on freedom of expression and opinion.” The Senate called
on the Belgian Government to “firmly condemn and vigorously protest the
Iranian president’s repeated calls for the destruction of Israel and
his denial of the genocide against the Jews after the Second World War,
and recall its ambassador to Tehran for consultations.”
The resolution stresses that “Considering the absence of a precise
definition of terrorism, the naming of Iranian opposition groups as
terrorist because of their struggle against a regime responsible for
systematic violations of human rights should be avoided.” The Belgian
Senate also called on the Belgian Government to “investigate within the
framework of the EU if, on the basis of current and revealed
information, it remains justified, or not, to maintain the PMOI on the
list of terrorist organizations.”
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the Iranian Resistance,
congratulated the Iranian people for the approval of the resolution and
emphasized that the unanimity of the Belgian Senate against the
anti-human clerical regime in Iran and its opposition to the inclusion
of the PMOI in the terror list, indicates the revulsion of all Belgians
for the religious fascism ruling Iran.
Mrs. Rajavi added that the resolution, like the declaration of 405
United Kingdom parliamentarians the week before, reflects the
conscience of all Europeans. The policy of appeasing the clerical
regime in Iran and inclusion of the PMOI in the terror list has no
legitimacy and is opposed by the peoples of European countries and
should be ended. Mrs. Rajavi expressed hope that European governments
would respond positively to their own peoples’ conscientious call and
adopt a firm policy against the mullahs in Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
December 23, 2005
Belgian Senate Resolution
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