Question 11131 — foreign policy

Summary

Mr Michel Larive draws the attention of the Secretary of State, to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, to the Council of Europe Convention against organ trafficking. In January 2018, he had already questioned him about organ trafficking in China and the means implemented to fight against it. The minister replied that France played a major role in this fight, and mentioned in particular the conventions international conventions which it had ratified. France participated in the Palermo Convention in 2000, and during the 8th Ceremony in 2016, France proposed various measures aimed at ensuring that the provisions of this Convention are respected as best as possible. Furthermore, the Council of Europe Convention on Trafficking in Human Beings, adopted in 2005, was also signed by France. It therefore seems clear that the fight against Organ trafficking is a subject of great concern to successive governments. But when a new Council of Europe Convention was signed in Santiago de Compostela in 2015, which entered into force on March 1, 2018, France was not one of the 17 European countries present. However, this Convention establishes a global framework to criminalize trafficking in human organs and protect victims. It allows particular to determine the real involvement of each country in this trafficking. It therefore seems that this new convention can play a major role in the fight against organ trafficking and the MP is surprised that France has not signed it. It is well known that despite the official ban on forced organ harvesting by the Chinese government in 2015, prisoners are still victims of these atrocities, which benefit the Chinese but also to strangers. Significant doubts remain regarding the involvement of certain French citizens, who allegedly practice a form of “medical tourism” in China. In fact, several hundred French patients disappear each year from the lists of organ seekers, which can be consulted on the website of the Biomedicine Agency, without having been reported as deceased. Considering these elements, he would like him to explains why France did not sign the Convention of Santiago de Compostela.

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