Subject: PRESS ADVISORY
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CAMPAIGN OF THE TRANSNATIONAL RADICAL PARTY FOR THE IMMEDIATE
SETTING UP OF THE AD HOC COURT FOR CRIMES COMMITTED IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
An international delegation uniting Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian Members
of Parliament and led by the Honourable Emma Bonino, Deputy Speaker of the
Italian Chamber of Deputies and Secretary of the Transnational Radical
Party will meet UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on 2 November to
deliver over 25,000 international signatures urging the immediate and
effective establishment of the International Tribunal for War Crimes
committed in the former Yugoslavia. Their meeting with the
Secretary-General will be preceded on 1 November by similar meetings with
the President of the Security Council, Ambassador Jose Luis Jesus, and the
President of the General Assembly, Ambassador Samuel R. Insanally.
A press conference,will be held at the UN Press Room on 2 November at 13.00
hours.
The signatures were collected world-wide by the Transnational Radical
Party from Members of Governments, Parliamentarians, Nobel Laureates and
other eminent personalities from the political, business, scientific, and
cultural fields.
The Parliamentarians in the delegation are: Izet Muhamedagic, Member of
the Bosnian Parliament, Party for Democratic Action and member of the
General Council of the Transnational Radical Party; Zdravko Tomac, Member
of the Croatian Chamber of Counties, President of the Democratic Reform
Party, and Vice-President of the Transnational Radical Party Parliamentary
Assembly; Slavko Perovic, Member of the Parliament of Montenegro, President
of the Liberal Alliance and member of the Transnational Party. The
delegation will also include Mona Makram-Ebeid, Member of Parliament from
Egypt and Walter McLean, former Canadian Minister of Immigration and Member
of Parliament.
Further signatories of the Appeal also in the delegation are: Arieh Neier,
President of the Open Society Fund and former Executive Director of the
American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch; Kemal Kurspahic,
Editor of the Sarajevo daily newspaper, "Oslobodjenje"; William Kunstler,
international lawyer, New York; Yuri Orlov, nuclear physicist and founder
of the Helsinki Movement, Hans Janitschek, former Secretary-General of the
Socialist International and member of the Transnational Party; and Vincent
McGee,former Chairman of Amnesty International, USA and currently a
Foundation Executive.
These meetings will take place 2 weeks before the first convening of the
11 judges elected in September by the General Assembly to serve on the
International Tribunal. The judges will convene in the Hague on 17
November. The overriding concern of the Transnational Radical Party is
that the Tribunal be given adequate resources soon--both financial and
political--to push this process forward as quickly as possible to avoid
further human rights violations and halt the unspeakable atrocities now
occuring in the former Yugoslavia. A scant $500,000 have been allocated to
date for this Court. A further $31 million proposed by the
Secretary-General is awaiting a positive vote from the General Assembly.
Uncertainty remains regarding the source of these funds.
The Transnational Radical Party, founded in 1989 and committed to resolving
transnational issues and to the establishment of legal authorities and
institutions to safeguard international Law and civil rights , currently
has more than 40,000 members from 45 countries, among these over 500
Parliamentarians from over 70 diverse national political parties.
For further information, please contact Filippo di Robilant at 867.4792 or
fax 818.9249.
