5. Asks all the warring parties to show respect for fundamental human rights and to ensure that the
humanitarian organisations have direct, unrestricted access to the places where there are refugees and dis-placed persons;
6. CallsonthegovernmentofBurundi topermitthedeploymentofUNand/orOAUmilitaryobservers
for the protection of aid workers and the implementation of humanitarian aid;
7. Re-emphasises the importance of holding, under UNand OAU auspices, an international conference
on peace, security and stability in the Great Lakes Region, to be attended by all the governments in theregion;
8. Insiststhattheneighbouring countriescontinuetosupportthepeaceprocessinBurundibyensuring
that their territory is not used in any way to threaten the security of the Burundian people;
9. Reiterates its call for an international embargo onthe export of arms and munitions toBurundi and
the Great Lakes Region asa whole, andcalls onthe Council and the Member Statesto honour the under-takings entered into as regards controlling arms exports to the region and preventing the illegal sale ofsuch arms and the trafficking used to fund such activities;
10. Calls on the international community, and the EU in particular, to step up humanitarian aid to
those in danger, displaced persons and Burundian refugees;
11. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Commission and Council, the governments
of the Member States and Burundi, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania, the UnitedNations, the WFP, Unicef and the OAU.
12. Rwanda
B5-0276, 0294 and 0300/1999
European Parliament resolution on the situation in the Great Lakes Region with special reference
to Rwanda
The European Parliament,
0dash recalling its earlier resolutions on the situation in Rwanda,
A. whereas on 3 November 1999 the appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court for Rwanda
decidedtorelease JeanBoscoBarayagwiza onatechnicality, despite the factthathewascharged with
six genocide-related crimes,
B. whereas Mr Barayagwiza was a senior official for a Rwandan hate radio which openly incited the
slaughter of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the country,
C. whereas the Rwandan Government responded by suspending its cooperation with the International
Criminal Courtin Arusha andpostponingindefinitely the visit tothe country by the Chief Prosecutor
of the International Criminal Court, Mrs Carla del Ponte,
D. whereas the suspensionofRwanda’s cooperation will seriously affect the Court’sability to conductits
trials, since most of the witnesses come from Rwanda,
E. whereas the workofthe InternationalCourtin general hasbeen characterised byexcessive delaysand
extremely slow investigations and proceedings, due among other things to a serious shortage of pro-
secutors and judges, which has resulted in the Court completing only four trials since it was estab-
lished five years ago,
F. whereas the International Court must establish the truth about the genocide which took place in
Rwanda in 1994 and must bring the instigators and perpetrators of the massacres to justice, so as toput an end to the current climate of impunity;7.7.2000 EN C 189/239 Official Journal of the European Communities
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1. Deplores the decision of the International Court to release Mr Barayagwiza on technical legal
grounds, which risks heavily undermining the credibility of the Tribunal;
2. Callsonthe InternationalCourttoreview itsdecision, taking intoaccountthe gravity ofthe charges
brought against Mr Barayagwiza, and in particular to reverse its ruling that Mr Barayagwiza cannot betried again in the Court on the charges for which he was originally indicted;
3. Firmly believes that there can never be immunity from prosecution over genocide charges and calls
on the International Court to review its requirements for retrials to avoid such a situation arising again inthe future;
4. Calls on the Rwandan Government to review its decision and to cooperate fully with the Interna-
tional Criminal Court in Arusha;
5. Callsonthe United NationsSecretary-General and the Chief Prosecutorof the InternationalCriminal
Court to take appropriate action as a matter of urgency to ensure that the International Criminal Court isable to perform the task set for it and establish without further delay the truth about the 1994 genocide;
6. Calls on the UNand the EU to evaluate the work done so far by the International Court, so that an
assessment can be made to determine if additional resources are required, with time limitation, for theCourt to conclude the investigations and the trials of the genocide suspects;
7. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Commission, the Council, the International
Criminal Court for Rwanda, the UNand OAU Secretaries-General, and the Government of Rwanda.
13. Pakistan
B5-0269, 0277, 0278, 0286 and 0296/1999
European Parliament resolution on Pakistan’s declaration of emergency
The European Parliament,
0dash havingregardtoitspreviousresolutionsonPakistan,conflictsbetweenPakistanandIndiaandmatters
of general concern in South Asia,
A. whereas the Pakistan military, led by army chief General Pervez Musharraf, overthrew and suspended
constitutional structures on 12 October 1999, issued a Proclamation of Emergency and detained and
deposed the Prime Minister in charge, Mr Nawaz Sharif,
B. whereas recent elected governments in Pakistan have failed to take steps to tackle corruption, to stop
grave human rights abuses and the practice of bondedlabour, preventing economic developmentandsocial progress, and to provide security in the country,
C. whereas the economic situation of the country has been deteriorating constantly and its financial
situation has reached the point where restructuring of external debt has become inevitable,
D. whereas the Pakistan army has been supporting the hardline fundamentalist Taliban regime in Afgha-
nistan,
E. whereas fundamentalist militants, supported also by the Taliban, are active in Pakistan and pose a
serious threat to the stability of the country and to respect for human rights, in particular those ofwomen and religious minorities,C 189/240 EN7.7.2000 Official Journal of the European Communities
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