Subject: From TRANSNATIONAL - Satyagraha - 4 July 1994 - No. 5
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PERMANENT INTERNATIONAL COURT: RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ANDREJ KOZYREV
SUPPORTS DUMA INITIATIVE
The initiative to institute the International Permanent Court has been
taken up in the Duma, the Lower House of the Russian Parliament.
The proposer of the action is Julij Rybakov, deputy elected to the Duma on
the "Russia's Choice" Parliamentary Group list. A member of the Radical
Party since 1992, he recently joined the "Hands Off Cain" and "There's No
Peace Without Justice" Campaigns. Rybakov, together with Mamuka Tsagareli
and Nikolaj Khramov, both of whom are members of the General Council of the
Radical Party, tabled the motion addressed to the Russian Government in
order that it might undertake all necessary initiatives to bring about the
institution of the Permanent International Court on the part of the U.N.
General Assembly during its Autumn session.On 15 June Rybakov met with
Russian Foreign Minister Andrej Kozyrev, as well as Vladimir Lukin, former
Russian Ambassador to the U.S., Chairman of the Duma Committee for Foreign
Affairs and member of the Javlinsky-Boldyrev-Lukin Parliamentary Group,
and Viktor Iliukhin, former Attorney General of the Soviet Union, Chairman
of the Duma Security Committee, and member of the Communist Parliamentary
Group. The three political exponents assured Rybakov that they would do
everything they could to progress the initiative in the Duma.
During a meeting of the "Russia's Choice" Parliamentary Group that took
place the next day, it was decided to formally present the motion to the
Russian Foreign Minister for official examination.
