Cyprus' House of Representatives on Thursday unanimously approved a resolution condemning the hanging of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the Cyprus News Agency reported.

In the resolution adopted at its first plenary session this year, the Cypriot parliament expressed abhorrence over the conditions under which Saddam Hussein was executed in Baghdad.

"Saddam Hussein's execution will fuel the already tense climate in the area," said the resolution.

It, meanwhile, called on all the 85 UN members which signed the non-binding declaration against the death penalty last December to act in permanently prohibiting its implementation throughout the world.

Saddam was executed by hanging shortly before 6 a.m. (0300 GMT) on Dec. 30, 2006 for killing of 148 people in Dujail, some 60 km north of Baghdad, after a failed assassination attempt in 1982.

Source: Xinhua