Subject: AIDS: LETTER TO RADICAL ACTIVISTS
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Radical Party
Moscow Office
Trubnaja 25-2-49
103051 Moscow, Russia
Tel./fax 7 095 9239127
Moscow, November 24, 1994
Dear friends,
As you probably already know from the mass media, on November 11 State Duma
passed the Aids Bill. Article 9 of this bill provides in particular the
obligatory testing on AIDS all the foreigners and persons without
citizenship, who "arrive for work, studying or with other purposes".
The passed bill, establishing at first time in world practice the
obligatory testing for all foreigners, including tourists, regardless to
terms of their stay in Russia. Besides of human rights violation, this bill
causes also the direct harm, since the obligatory testing will absorb 95%
of the financial resources endowed for struggle against Aids, leaving no
penny for research, sexual education, prophylactics. Both Mrs. Bela
Denisenko, chairwoman of the Duma's Health Care Committee, and leading
specialists on Aids cure spoke already against the current conception of
the bill. Now the bill is submitted to the Federation Council. Exactly it
is now up to Upper Chamber of Russian parliament: will this bill
implemented or not.
The Transnational Radical Party has prepared the initiative against the
Aids Bill. During the next days we will send letters to all the senators,
asking them to disapprove the Aids Bill and send it back to the State Duma
for remaking. The Aids Bill item is already included into the agenda of the
nearest Federation Council's session, which convenes on December 6 and will
continue about one week.
To the beginning of the FC's session we have scheduled also demonstration
to protest against the xenophobic and ineffective bill, which will take
place on December 6 at 9.30 near the Federation Council's building in
Moscow (Boljshaja Dmitrovka, 26).
We count also on your support. We have very few time, just several days.
Please:
- Send telegram or fax to Mr. Vladimir Shumejko, president of Federation
Council of the Federal Assembly of Russian Federation, asking him to
undertake all the necessary to disapprove by Federation Council the Aids
Bill passed by State Duma.
Post address: Mr. Vladimir Shumejko, Federation Council, B. Dmitrovka 26,
101790 Moscow, Russia.
Telephone: +7-095-2925750; fax +7-095-2926545.
If you do not have any possibility to fax, please contact the Moscow office
of the Radical Party and we will deliver all your signatures to the
Federation Council.
- Try to collect signatures of people surrounding you under your appeal to
the president of Federation Council and also to submit it to the proper
destination.
Please, send us copies of your appeals together with names and addresses of
the subscribed people: it gives us possibility to inform in the future
about the course of campaign everybody who supported us.
- If you live in Moscow and therefore can participate in Radical
demonstration, come to the Federation Council (B. Dmitrovka, 26) on
December 6, at 9.30.
With friendship and hope for collaboration,
Nikolaj Khramov
member of General Council
of Radical Party
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