APPEAL FOR THE LIBERATION OF ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS.

UNESCO - Paris, December 7 - President Chirac, welcoming the legislative work of the United Nations and the recent decision to set up an International Criminal Court (ICC), declared:

"A NEW WORLD JUDICIAL ORDER IS GRADUALLY BEING CONSTRUCTED IN WHICH NOBODY, NOT EVEN HEADS OF STATE, WILL BE SAFE FROM PROSECUTION WHERE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY ARE CONCERNED."