UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, dogged by charges he was softening U.N. opposition to capital punishment, weighed in again on the issue on Saturday, urging a stay of executions in Iraq.
Ban's chief of staff, Vijay Nambiar, wrote the Iraqi authorities urging "restraint by the government of Iraq in the execution of death sentences imposed by the Iraqi High Tribunal," Ban spokeswoman Michele Montas said in a statement.
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