جام جهان بین

رومانو پرودی، نخست وزیر ایتالیا می گوید این کشور در نظر دارد برای کمک به غیرقانونی شدن مجازات مرگ در تمام کشورهای جهان، اقداماتی در سازمان ملل متحد به عمل آورد. به گزارش دیوید ویلی، گوش کنید:

رومانو پرودی می گوید ایتالیا از طریق سازمان ملل متحد برای منع جهانی اعدام تلاش خواهد کرد

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Romano Prodi, the leader of the current centre-left coalition, said Italy will lobby actively at the United Nations for an end to capital punishment worldwide. The Italian ambassador to the UN has already called upon the General Assembly to re-examine a document already presented for debate last month. Italy took up one of the ten non-permanent seats on the Security Council this week.

Mr. Prodi said at the weekend that no crime can justify one person killing another. This is a principle which all civilisations and religions share, he said. Italy presented proposals for a moratorium on the death penalty at the UN assembly in 1994 and again in 1995 and last July the Italian parliament approved a cross-party motion urging the government to table yet another moratorium proposal but this came to nothing because of disagreement among Italy's EU partners.

Politicians from both left and right have been expressing disgust at the execution of Saddam Hussein. The former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, called his hanging "a political and historic error". The outcry has also been reflected by almost universal condemnation in the Italian press of the press leaks and videos of the hanging of the former Iraqi leader. The semi official Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, said the transformation of the final moments of Saddam Hussein's life into a public spectacle was a violation of a fundamental human right.

The Iraqi government has said that Italy has no right to criticise Saddam Hussein's execution when, at the end of the Second World War, the fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, was killed by partisans and left hanging by his feet in a Milan square to the derision of the crowds. Mussolini's granddaughter, Alessandra, a right-wing MP, joined in the argument saying she found the killing of Saddam Hussein disgusting and shameful.

David Willey, BBC News, Rome

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justify
توجیه کردن

moratorium
تعلیق، توقف موقت قانونی

a cross-party motion
در اینجا: پیشنهاد برای تهیه قانونی که تمام احزاب سیاسی با آن موافقند

came to nothing
بی نتیجه ماند، شکست خورد

universal condemnation
محکوم کردن جهانی. مخالفت شدید جهانی

press leaks
درز خبر خصوصی یا محرمانه به روزنامه ها توسط شخصی که اجازه این کار را ندارد

spectacle
نمایش

fundamental
اساسی

dictator
دیکتاتور

derision
ریشخند، تمسخر