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34 Euro MPs Urge EU Council to end terror listing of Mojahedin of Iran |
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Friday, 28 December 2007 |
 NCRI - A press release by Mr. Struan Stevenson, Vice-President of the group of the European People's Party (EPP-ED), the largest group in the European Parliament, annonced that 34 senior Euro MPs of the group in a joint statement called on the EU council of Ministers to immediately end unlawful terror listing of People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
The announcement followed the December 18th visit by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran to the main headquarters of the European Parliament in Brussels where she discussed the latest developments and the Iranian Resistance's legal and political measures to compel the EU Council of Ministers to implement the European Court of Justice ruling to remove the PMOI from the EU's terror list.
Signatories to the statement include three European Parliament
Vice-Presidents, Heads of Delegations from 19 countries in the group
and six Vice-Chairs of the group.
The statement declared: "The defiance of the 12 December 2006 ruling by
the European Communities' Court of First Instance which annulled the
Council of Minister's decision to designate the PMOI in the list of
banned organisations and the unlawful justifications by the Council not
to implement the ruling, are unacceptable steps taken in line with the
policy of appeasement towards the Iranian regime."
By referring to the call by more than 2,000 lawmakers and 8,500 lawyers
and jurists from across Europe to end the terrorist designation of the
PMOI, the MEPs reiterated, " Even the broadest definitions of terrorism
do not apply to the Organisation." "Following the decision by the
British court, the PMOI's terror designation is not only null and void
in Britain, but also in the EU."
The EU's Court on December 12, 2006, revoked the EU Council of
Ministers' inclusion of the PMOI in the EU terror list. But upon the
request and insistence of the United Kingdom, the Council of Ministers
refused to implement the court ruling.
On 14 December 2007, a Court in the United Kingdom reaffirmed its
earlier judgment that the PMOI (MEK)'s proscription was 'perverse' and
refused the British Home Secretary's application for leave to appeal.
Mrs. Rajavi said in a press conference at EU headquarters,"The PMOI has
again challenged the Council in court for not implementing its verdict
and for unlawfully re-listing the PMOI. Now, however, following the
court ruling in the UK, the EU has no more excuses. "
"The EU should end its defiance of the Court and the unlawful
maintaining of the terror tag on the PMOI at once", Mrs. Rajavi said.
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