They presented a document signed by 318 Italian MPs urging their government to abide by the 12 December ruling of the European Court of Justice, removing the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran from the list of terrorist organisations.
They presented a document signed by 318 Italian MPs urging their government to abide by the 12 December ruling of the European Court of Justice, removing the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran from the list of terrorist organisations.
Text of the statement released in the conference is as follows:
Today, on 22 March 2007, Italian MPs took part in a press conference to present a document signed by the majority of the Italian Parliament. In this conference, MPs from different parliamentary groups asked the Italian government to apply the European Court of Justice ruling of 12 December 2006, removing the PMOI from the list of terrorist organisations.
In the document signed by the majority of the Italian MPs, we can read:
“The European Council’s motivations for keeping the PMOI on the list of terrorist organizations are a worthless charade, which makes a mockery of the rule of law upon which the institutions of the EU and European Member States rely. Violating the rule of law and placing the Council’s opinion above that of the highest EU courts in yet another attempt to appease the Iranian regime, is both scandalous and unacceptable…
The PMOI is a legitimate resistance movement and its inclusion on the terrorist list was, from day one, the blatant product of a deal with the clerical regime in Iran . But we must say that the decision by the Council of Ministers has stepped over limits…
While Iranian revolutionary guards roam freely in Iraq , inflaming the insurgency, killing allied troops and murdering countless Iraqi civilians, the European Council should be offering support to those who oppose the mullahs, rather than seeking to impede them…
We demand that the Council implement the ruling of the Court of First Instance and removes the PMOI from the EU terrorist list.
The Council’s defiance of the Court’s ruling benefits no-one except the extremists who rule Iran and who are the real enemies of peace and democracy.
This statement was signed by the following MPs:
Carlo Ciccioli
Gaetano Fasolino
Angelo Alessandri
Stefania Craxi
Maurizio Acerbo
Renzo Tondo