and meetings with third countries; suggests, furthermore, the strengthening of the
financial support provided to the ICC;
100. Welcomes the adoption of the EU Toolkit on Advancing Complementarity and calls on
the EEAS and the Commission to take additional steps for its effective implementation;
encourages the EU to ensure that support for the ICC is appropriately mainstreamed in all
relevant areas of EU foreign policy;
101. Calls on the EU Member States to fully implement the Rome Statute by aligning national
legislation with all Statute obligations and to comply with the ICC‘s requests for
assistance and cooperation at all stages of the Court‘s proceedings, particularly with
regard to preliminary examination, investigation, arrest and surrender, protection of
victims and witnesses, interim release and the enforcement of sentences; regrets that
contributions to the Trust Fund for Victims remain insufficient and calls on EU Member
States to provide the resources required for it to fully fulfil its mandate;
102. Expresses support for appropriately funded outreach and public information activities
through the regular budget of the Court and underlines the importance of these activities
in ensuring that justice is visible;
103. Calls on the EU Member States to ratify the Kampala Amendments to the Rome Statute
and to encourage its ratification by third countries;
104. Calls on the EU and its Member States to increase their efforts to fight impunity within
the EU‘s own borders; encourages them in this connection to take into consideration the
recommendations of the European Network of contact points in respect of persons
responsible for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes;
The death penalty and capital punishment
105. Reiterates its univocal opposition to capital punishment, and considers implementation of
a universal moratorium with a view to the global abolition of the death penalty to be a
central objective of the EU‘s policy on human rights; emphasises the fact that the death
penalty has never been proved to be an effective deterrent to crime and that, according to
the data available, it is the disadvantaged who are punished most by the death penalty;
applauds the efforts of the European Union and its Member States at the United Nations
that led to the adoption of the General Assembly resolution regarding the moratorium on
the use of the death penalty in December 2012; is concerned, however, by the resumption
of executions in a number of countries; calls for the EU to continue to undertake targeted
campaigns on the death penalty and to intensify engagement with retentionist countries;
expects to be appropriately consulted in the course of the review of Regulation (EC) No
1236/2005 on trade in goods which can be used for capital punishment or torture, which
was planned for 2013;
106. Deplores the fact that Belarus remains the last country on the European continent to retain
the death penalty; reiterates again that the executions of Dmitri Konovalov and Vladislav
Kovalev are deeply regrettable; repeats its call to Belarus to implement a moratorium on
the death penalty, which should ultimately lead to its abolition;
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