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UN / INFOSOC WORLD SUMMIT: PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PAT COX ASKS TUNIS TO REVISE GENERAL AMMAR'S APPOINTMENT ON REQUEST OF MEP MARCO CAPPATO
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Brussels, November 13th 2003
On Sept 22nd, Radical Member of the European Parliament Marco Cappato made an intervention at the plenary session requesting Parliament President Pat Cox to intervene for the appointment of Tunisian General Abib Ammar as President of the National Organising Committee of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) to be held in Tunis in November 2005 to be revised. General Ammar is in fact notorious for his impressive career at the service of the repression apparatus of the Tunisian regime, rather than for any contributions to the development of a free information society.
EP President Pat Cox has written a letter to Marco Cappato informing that he will send a letter to Ben Ali, President of the Republic of Tunis, "requesting the revision of the appointment of General Ammar regarding both his function of President of the National Organising Committee of the World Summit on the Information Society and his role as President of the Tunisian Delegation at the Geneva Summit". Furthermore, Cox will contact Omar Bahket, Director of the UNO Representation Office before the EU, requesting the UNO to intervene before the Tunisian government in view of the revision.
Intervention by Marco Cappato at the plenary session of the European Parliament last September 22nd:
"Mr. President,
I would like to draw your attention to a serious fact that is currently happening: the Preparation Committee of the World Summit on the Information Society is being held in Geneva. On the first place, access to this committee has been denied to two non-governmental organisations, namely Reporters Sans Frontières and Human Rights in China; secondly, the second session of the Summit on the Information Society will take place in Tunis. Yet the World Observatory Against Torture reports that the Tunis appointee as President responsible of this summit is no other than General Habib Ammar, former commissioner of the Burghiba National Ward and former Home Affairs Minister, and the one who created the Special Services National Directorate, notorious for its torture crimes in Tunis.
Mr. President, I would like to ask you to intervene to avoid that the UNO World Summit on the Information Society is entrusted to a person whose hands are dirty with the blood of torture, which, in this way, would end up entering the internet and the information society."
For further information:
Gianluca Eramo
geramo@europarl.eu.int
On Sept 22nd, Radical Member of the European Parliament Marco Cappato made an intervention at the plenary session requesting Parliament President Pat Cox to intervene for the appointment of Tunisian General Abib Ammar as President of the National Organising Committee of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) to be held in Tunis in November 2005 to be revised. General Ammar is in fact notorious for his impressive career at the service of the repression apparatus of the Tunisian regime, rather than for any contributions to the development of a free information society.
EP President Pat Cox has written a letter to Marco Cappato informing that he will send a letter to Ben Ali, President of the Republic of Tunis, "requesting the revision of the appointment of General Ammar regarding both his function of President of the National Organising Committee of the World Summit on the Information Society and his role as President of the Tunisian Delegation at the Geneva Summit". Furthermore, Cox will contact Omar Bahket, Director of the UNO Representation Office before the EU, requesting the UNO to intervene before the Tunisian government in view of the revision.
Intervention by Marco Cappato at the plenary session of the European Parliament last September 22nd:
"Mr. President,
I would like to draw your attention to a serious fact that is currently happening: the Preparation Committee of the World Summit on the Information Society is being held in Geneva. On the first place, access to this committee has been denied to two non-governmental organisations, namely Reporters Sans Frontières and Human Rights in China; secondly, the second session of the Summit on the Information Society will take place in Tunis. Yet the World Observatory Against Torture reports that the Tunis appointee as President responsible of this summit is no other than General Habib Ammar, former commissioner of the Burghiba National Ward and former Home Affairs Minister, and the one who created the Special Services National Directorate, notorious for its torture crimes in Tunis.
Mr. President, I would like to ask you to intervene to avoid that the UNO World Summit on the Information Society is entrusted to a person whose hands are dirty with the blood of torture, which, in this way, would end up entering the internet and the information society."
For further information:
Gianluca Eramo
geramo@europarl.eu.int
