WRITTEN QUESTION E-1650/01 by John Cushnahan (PPE-DE) to the Council. Nigeria's participation in peacekeeping duties.
Date: 2001-06-12
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Nigeria, common foreign and security policy, international affairs, multinational force, peacekeeping

14.2.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 40 E/73

(2002/C 40 E/070)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1650/01

by John Cushnahan (PPE-DE) to the Council

(12 June 2001)

Subject: Nigeria(cid:146)s participation in peacekeeping duties

The US has recently announced its wish to include Nigeria as a member of the peacekeeping mission in
West Africa. In the light of the ongoing human rights abuses by Nigerian security forces, does the Council
believe that this is an appropriate course of action?

Reply

(8 October 2001)

The Council takes the view that by virtue of its political and economic influence, population and size,
Nigeria plays an important international and regional role. Accordingly, a Council Common Position on
Nigeria (1) was adopted on 14 May 2001 stipulating, inter alia, within the framework of its policy on
conflict prevention, management and resolution in Africa,
the European Union would support and
encourage strengthened peace-keeping capacities.

The Council would remind the Honourable Member that following problems that have arisen in the past
when Nigeria has taken part in peace-keeping operations in West Africa, re-professionalisation of the
Nigerian army was singled out as being a key area for EU monitoring and support.

(1) OJ L 132, 15.5.2001.

(2002/C 40 E/071)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1651/01

by John Cushnahan (PPE-DE) to the Council

(12 June 2001)

Subject: Russia(cid:146)s continuing failure to fulfil its promises

Is the Council aware of Russia(cid:146)s failure to create a National Commission of Inquiry as required by last
year(cid:146)s resolution on Chechnya? What action does it now intend to take to pursue this matter?

Reply

(8 October 2001)

At its 56th session, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) adopted its resolution
number 2000/58. In this, it called upon (cid:145)the Government of the Russian Federation to establish urgently,
according to recognised international standards, a national, broad-based and independent commission of
inquiry to investigate promptly alleged violations of human rights and breaches of
international
humanitarian law committed in the Republic of Chechnya in order to establish the truth and identify
those responsible, with a view to bringing them to justice and preventing impunity.(cid:146)

On 20 February 2001, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a report on the
the Russian
situation in the Republic of Chechnya of
Federation provided written communications to the Office of the High Commissioner in contribution to
the preparation of this report. In these, it reported that a National Public Commission for the Investigation
of Human Rights Violations and Observance of Human Rights in the Chechen Republic had been
established, and was presided over by Mr P V Krasheninnikov, a member of the State Duma of the Federal
Assembly of the Russian Federation.

the Russian Federation. The government of