PRESIDENT

Sarajevo, 5th June 1995

Dear Sir/Madam,

You are probably already aware of the initiative of the transnational Radical Party in support of the application by Bosnia-Hercegovina to join the European Union. An international appeal in support of the application has so far been signed by more than 80 members of the European Parliament, by 170 deputies of various European national parliaments, and by leading figures from the world of culture and science.

Your support for this appeal would help to persude the governments of the member countries of the European Union to take a position with regard to the initiative, and would also represent a condemnation of the aggression against the Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina and the voice of conscience against hatred and violence, in the awareness that this is not an ethnic or religious war but a brutal attack on an independent, sovereign and internationally recognized European country. The ferocious Serbo-Montenegrin aggression and the invisible genocide which have been carried out for over three years in Bosnia-Hercegovina are aimed at destroying the whole Bosnian people and dividing Bosnia Hercegovina into small ethnic countries.

We hope that you will not take a neutral position with regard to the struggle between democracy and ultra-nationalism and fascism, between a multi-ethnic and multi-religious concept and the idea of the single nation and single religion.

Bosnia Hercegovina is fully aware of the principles on which the European Union is founded, being itself a centuries-old model of multi-ethnic society based on tolerance and the co-existence of peoples. In this sense Europe, too, has a duty to uphold its own concept for Bosnia-Hercegovina. Thus the membership of our country in the European Union would support a multi-ethnic, multi-religious and democratic Bosnia-Hercegovina, a state in which citizens are equal before the law whatever their ethnic, religious or political roots, within its internationally recognized confines.

The deputies of the Parliament of the Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina, and I myself, give our unreserved support to this appeal.

In the hope that you will join us, and all the democratic forces in Europe, in the front line of the struggle for a better and more human world, of which the free, democratic, and intact Bosnia-Hercegovina will be a member, I send you my best regards.

Yours faithfully,

Miro Lazovic

President of the Parliament of Bosnia-Hercegovina