TO THE PRESS DIRECTOR:

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5 AT 12 PM THERE WILL BE A PRESS CONFERENCE TO PRESENT THE 37TH CONGRESS OF THE RADICAL PARTY, TRANSNATIONAL AND TRANSPARTY. ADDRESSING THE PRESS WILL BE MARCO PANNELLA AND LEADERS OF THE CONGRESS WHICH OPENS APRIL 7 AT THE HOTEL ERGIFE IN ROME.

On Wednesday April 5 at 12 pm there will be a press conference to present the 37th Congress of the Radical Party. the press conference will take place at the headquarters of the Radical party on Via di Torre Argentina, 76.

The Congress will open at precisely 9am friday, April 7. Preceding this, on Thursday night there will be a meeting of the General Council of the Radical Party which, among other things will propose to the Congress the priority of works and the regulation of party rules.

ATTENDING THE PRESS CONFERENCE WILL BE:

Marco Pannella, President of the Radical Party

Luca Frassineti,Interim Secretary who has subtituted Emma Bonino,

presently Commissioner for the European Union

Lenora B.Fulani, one of the most significant leaders of the

African-American community in the United States

Lawrence Hayes, the last man sentenced to death penalty

Amadou Maiga, Fatimata Legma, J.Claude Bouda, MP's -Burkina Faso

Ibrahim N'Doure, MP Mali

Maria Giovanna Maglie, journalist

Valerij Ivasiuk, First vice-president of National Committee

Against AIDS, Ukraina

Valerij Evdokimov, President of the Commission for Law and Justice

Ukrainian Parliaments

Vladimir Stretovich, President of the Commission on Law Policy,

Ukrainian Parliament

This is very important Congress which concludes a period in which the party has had much success reaching the goals se for it by the Congress of 1992-3 and by the General Council of Sofia of July 1993. These successes have broght about the first transnational transparty which has become a voice of the United Nations, the General Secretary and has for the first time secured fundamental international rights: the creation of the ad hoc Tribunal for crimes of war committed in the ex-Yugloslavia and then in Rwanda, the opening of UN sanctioned debate for the creation of a Permanent International Criminal Court, the fractoius debate in the General Assembly of the UN for a Universal Moratorium on the Death Penalty. In addition, the Congress has still to aim towards the other campaigns which it has set for itself, for example the anti-prohibitionist campaign and for a universal language.

Above all, the Radical Party must verify the state of the Party, which in January 1988 was born as a transnational party - that is, which does not participate in any local or national elections in any country in the world. This party has won significant battles for everyone and also it finds itself confronting enormous financial difficulties and lacking in human resources.

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