EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Europe’s foreign ministers will meet today (Monday 21 July) in Brussels to decide on tabling a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly banning the death penalty. An attempt in 1999 to pass such a vote failed, with some UN members arguing that the move was excluded under rules protecting internal state decisions. The EU, at the time led by Finland, called on all UN members to progressively limit offences with can be punishable by death – with the final aim of abolition. The next General Assembly is in September.