with Indonesia and in the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Albania, which entered into force during the reporting period, which brings to more than 120 the number of countries accepting the inclusion of this clause in agreements with the EU; 115. Deplores the poor follow-up of human rights clauses inserted in the Cotonou Agreement, and urges the HR/VP, the Commission, the Council and the Member States to make full use of those clauses in order to take up extensively human rights problems and the promotion of human rights in bilateral and regional dialogues with ACP partner countries; Promotion of democracy and rule of law in external relations 116. Welcomes the Council Conclusions on Democracy Support in EU External Relations1 and the adoption of the EU Agenda for Action on Democracy Support in EU External Relations as a means of improving the coherence and effectiveness of EU democracy support; 117. Urges the Commission finally to follow up without delay, through the necessary initiatives and financial commitments, the 2007 Human Rights Report in which Parliament considered 'nonviolence as the most appropriate means of ensuring that fundamental human rights are enjoyed, upheld, promoted and respected', believing that 'its promotion should constitute a priority objective in EU human rights and democracy policy'; 118. Calls on the Commission to integrate the agenda for democracy support more fully in the annual action programmes of its external instruments, in particular that of the EIDHR, as well as in regional and country strategy papers, thereby consistently taking into account the country’s specific situation and the EU’s regional strategy; 119. Takes note of the Amnesty International Report 2010 which highlights the ongoing second trial of former YUKOS oil company chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business associate Platon Lebedev as representative of unfair trials in Russia; calls upon the Russian Federation to ensure that fundamental norms of due process and human rights are respected in the prosecution of these and all other defendants in the country’s justice system; 120. Urges the Russian judicial authorities to press ahead with the investigation of the death on 16 November 2009 of Russian lawyer Sergey Magnitsky; deplores that this case is still an outstanding example of the serious shortcomings within the country's judicial system; regrets the situation that, while human rights defenders are often subject to a harsh treatment and trials that ignore the Russian Federation's Code of Criminal Procedure (such as its Article 72 in the case against Oleg Orlov of Memorial for slander), those guilty of aggressions against and even murder of human rights defenders, independent journalists and lawyers still too often enjoy impunity; calls on the Council, in the absence of positive moves from the Russian authorities to cooperate and investigate the case of Sergey Magnitsky, to insist that the Russian authorities bring those responsible to justice and to consider imposing an EU entry ban for Russian officials involved in this case, and encourages EU law enforcement agencies to cooperate in freezing bank accounts and other assets of these Russian officials in all EU Member States; 121. Calls on the HR/VP of the Commission to ensure that human rights and democracy-building effectively become “the silver thread running through all” external policy areas; notes meanwhile with concern that the Council has not formally taken note of any follow-up report in relation to the Council conclusions of November 2009 on Democracy Support in the EU’s External Relations and 1 GAERC 17 November 2009.