To His Excellency

President of the Republic of Armenia

Mr. Levon TER-PETROSJAN

Moscow, May 27, 1994

Dear Mr. President:

We, members of the transnational Radical Party - a transdivisional, democratic, non-violent party, which struggles for right to life and life of Right - express our deep concern in the context of the information about the death sentence passed in Stepanakert against military pilot of Azerbaijanian Air Force, Ukrainian citizen Jurij Belechenko, who was accused in commitment of war crimes, in particularly - bombings of the villages of Mardakert rayon of Azerbaijan, which resulted victims among civilians.

Fighting consistently for the abolishing of death penalty, as also for the immediate setting up the permanent international tribunal on war crimes (which statute has to exclude death penalty for any sort of crimes, as it was already provided by the statute of the ad hoc Tribunal on war crimes in ex-Yugoslavia), we consider that crimes as that ones Jurij Belechenko is accused in, must be judged by the international criminal institution with a sovranational jurisdiction, but not by the judicial authorities of Armenia, Azerbaijan or any third country.

In this context we request you, Mr. President:

- to use all your influence on the authorities of the Armenian community of Nagorno Karabakh in order to abolish death sentence against Jurij Belechenko;

- to undertake as a head of the Armenian state (which is member state of the United Nations) all the necessary steps in order to obtain the permanent international tribunal on war crimes to be created by the UN General Assembly during its next session (September - December 1994).

Sincerely Yours,

Mamuka Tsagareli,

member of the presidency of the General Council of the Radical Party

Nikolaj Khramov,

member of the General Council of the Radical Party