Russian and UN call for the execution of non-Aziz

Invited the United Nations and Russia not to carry out the death sentence of Tariq Aziz, Iraqi deputy prime minister during the regime of President Saddam Hussein, while the United States saw that the discount in the execution of the sentence is a matter for Iraq alone
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Martin Nesirky, it was announced, a spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday that the UN agency has asked Iraq not to execute and Tariq Aziz
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"The position of the United Nations on the death penalty is known, we reject the death penalty and certainly demanding, as we have done in other cases, the non-implementation of the death penalty
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Within the same context, asked Russia on Wednesday of Iraq not to execute the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister, despite the previous death sentence, according to a statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The ministry said Moscow hopes that "does not allow the Iraqi Presidential Council of the death penalty," issued against Tariq Aziz.

She added that "humanitarian reasons imposed to show clemency towards it," and stressed that "it is necessary to take into account the health status of Tariq Aziz and his advanced age."

MPs denounced the Russians earlier in the day by virtue of executions issued on Tuesday in Baghdad against Tariq Aziz (74 years).

The Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Federation Council (upper chamber of the Russian parliament) Mikhail Margilov in a statement reported by Interfax news agency Russian "What happened in Iraq is the liquidation of users and the settlement of accounts between the different sects, but not a victory for the judiciary."

The Russian official added "We will invite the international community and the European Parliament and the United States to prevent the killing of Aziz," noting that "nothing can justify this provision."

CROWLEY: The final decision to resolve the issue in this case back to Iraq alone (Al-Jazeera - Archive)
Iraqi issue
The U.S. position, he came to San State Department spokesman Philip Crowley, who said that the final decision to resolve the issue in this case back to Iraq alone
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Crowley added, "the U.S. administration's position is that Tariq Aziz was convicted by a legal process in line with the Iraqi Constitution
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The exclusion of Appeals
Among the latest developments related to the case, said Giovanni Di Stefano, a lawyer for Tariq Aziz, one Wednesday that the former Iraqi minister will likely resume his death sentence, because it is a move that would initiate the court that issued the ruling Tuesday
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Di Stefano said in a statement to Agence France Press about the possibility of appeal against the sentence "We will probably do so," he said, adding he preferred to make appeals to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Commission on Human Rights Department.

He explained that "the death sentence issued by the court without a government, and imposes the Iraqi Penal Code to be authenticated on the death penalty from the President (...) and also a member of the government."

And Iraq is now a political crisis because of the failure of the parliamentary blocs to form a government since elections on March 7 years.

Said Di Stefano, who plans to travel Sunday to Iraq, "resumed the court's decision if it means that there is a legal recognition that I agree on the existence of government."

Hanging
The High Criminal Court in Baghdad last Tuesday, death sentences "hanging until death" on the three former Iraqi officials, Tariq Aziz and Saadoun Shaker, Abdul Hamid Hamoud, after being convicted in the case of "the liquidation of the religious parties."

And sentenced to one month to appeal the verdict and, if proved to death, the Presidential Council would have to be approved before it is applied.
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