ABSTRACT: Vasile Diacon is member of Parliament for the National Salvation Front, member of the federal Council of the Radical Party

by Gheorghe Mihalache

* We found out, Mr. VASILE DIACON, deputy in the Parliament of Romania from FSN, that you have participated at a reunion outside the borders. What is it about?

* I have participated at the Conference of the Federal Council of the Radical Party, between October 31-November 3 in Zagreb, Yougoslavia. As usually, there were discussions upon organisatoric aspects of the party and problems of the international life. Together with many parlamentarians of other countries, members of the party, seven Romanian parlamentarians have participated, as an exploratory mission. Though, we didn't represent the Parlament neither the parties we belong to.

* Only parlamentarians are members of the party?

* It is opened first of all to parlamentarians from all over the world, but anyone can join the party, who wishes to build, this way, a new Europe. I must point out that there are also active members of the party personalities awarded the Nobel Prize in different fields, including peace. I'd like to name only three of them: Vasil Leontieff, George Wald and Rita Levi Montalcini. I'd like to name also the Romanian Eugene Ionesko, our well-known play-writer, living in France and who said, when he joined the party: "the proposals and the ideas of this party are addressed to my heart. I am non-violent as the most violently as possible. "

* Where is the centre of this party?

* Its central headquarter is in Rome (its president is the well-known politician Marco Pannella), with centers in other cities of the world. Some of the parlamentarians members of this party are also members of the European Parlament. One of them, Adelaide Aglietta, president of the Green Group in the PE is co-raporting for Romania in the PE.

* Why "Federal Council" ?

* It is named FC exactly because it is a transnational party. Every parlamentarian, from every country, is member with full rights in the Council.

* In our country, by tradition, there is some kind of fear against the various transnational institutions. Which are the aims of the party that could justify the joining of Romanian parlamentarians to a political organisation like this ?

* Being transnational, it is also transpartitic, receiving members from other parties, too. Its actions can be synthesized in some type-words, as: tolerance, nonviolence, gandhian, democrat, ambientalist, ecologist, democratic federalist, laic, european, antiautoritarian, antiprohibitionist, antipartitocratic, antimilitarist. Its aim is to fight for the human and political rights, for the life of the law and the law of life, to give a political aspect and force to the protector humanism of the life conditions, by a political instrument which could collect the valours that belong to it.

For us, Romanian parlamentarians, it is important the opportunity which opens for us through these meetings, to make a lobby for Romania, to focus the attention of the world's parlamentarians, this way, on the Romanian problems. For example, in Zagreb, we asked the parlamentarians (including those from Ukraina) to raise, in the parlaments they belong to, the problem of recognition of the Republic of Moldavia, but also to hold the right of the Romanian people on the territories stolen from them: North of Bukovina, the Isle of Snakes, which today are not under the jurisdiction of Kishinev. And we want this as a first step to the situation of 1939.

In order to illustrate the possibilities offered by such meetings, I'd like to bring only one example of those that I could give. At a breakfast, I sat at the same table with a French sociologist. In the discussion between us, he said that Transilvania is a Hungarian land. I reacted, drawing him on the table napkin the map of Romania, explaining him in a few words that here, in Transilvania is the place of the Romanian nation's and language's birth. He told me that he didn't know about the historic aspects I presented him, and that the Hungarian books he had read told him something totally different. "Why don't you read Romanian books too ?" I asked him. "Because they don't exist" he replied. I promised him that I will send him such works, and he assured me that he will write about these problems in France. Here is a book of Milton G. Lehrer, "Transylvania - History and Reality" that I have just received and that I am ready to send him.

* Do you think that Romanian parlamentarians will enroll the TRP, having such arguments ?

* I believe so. I believe, because each of us has this obligation to make Romania known in the world. And if this political subject will have a small number of members, we won't be able to use the possibilities we are offered. The more we will be, the easier will be this activity of lobby for Romania and with better results.

* Where should people and parlamentarians write if they want to enroll the party ?

* People who wish to become members of the RP until a transnational radical group will be organised in Romania, can contact me directly or by telephone at my home at nr. 78291.