The Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union,

Referring to the case of Mr. Miguel Angel Pavón Salazar of Honduras, who was murdered in January 1988, as outlined in the report of the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians (CL/181/11(a)-R.1), and to the resolution adopted at its 180th session (May 2007),

Recalling that one of the suspects of Mr. Pavón's murder died during Hurricane Mitch and the other, Mr. Jaime Rosales, was extradited from the United States in August 2003; he was acquitted of the murder by a lower court, but the judgment was quashed on appeal and, on 16 June 2006, he was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment; an application for judicial review of that judgement is still pending before the Supreme Court,

1. Regrets that no information has been provided as to any decision the Supreme Court may meanwhile have taken on that application challenging Mr. Rosales's conviction;

2. Requests the Secretary Generalonce again to contact the competent authorities and the source with a view to obtaining such information;

3. Requests the Committee to continue examining this case and report to it at its next session, to be held on the occasion of the 118th Assembly of the IPU (Cape Town, April 2008).

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