Brussels, April 15, 1996

Estimate Professor,

recent events in Taiwan strait have brought even more urgency and importance to democratic development of humanity, particularly as regards human rights, fundamental liberties and freedom tout court for the Chinese people as well as for the peoples colonized and oppressed by the totalitarian Beijing's communist regime.

In this context, we do believe that time has come for the international community to support with a strong signal of deep solidarity to all those fighting for democracy in China, risking their freedom and even their life.

Together with our friends from the Paris-based Fédération pour la Démocratie en Chine, and the New York's Human Rights in China, we do believe that awarding the well-known, and once again imprisoned, Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng of the Nobel Peace Prize would undoubtedly be a strong signal to Chinese authorities.

As you probably know, besides Nobel Peace Prize awarded and Members of Parliament and/or government, also university professors of history, law, philosophy, or political sciences are entitled to endorse Wei Jingsheng's candidacy for the Prize.

Mailing of such appeal to dozens of thousands parliamentarians and university professors all over the world is currently underway: our goal is to collect at least 3,000 adhesions by the end of this year.

Looking forward for your support to this initiative, please accept my best regards

Olivier Dupuis, MEP

General Secretary of the

Transnational Radical Party

enclosed is the standard form supporting Wei Jingsheng nomination for the 1997 Nobel Peace Price. Should you wish to endorse the nomination, you may return your adhesion to the following faxes and/or e-mails in:

Brussels: +32-2-2303670/2849198 pr.bruxelles@agora.stm.it

Budapest: +36-1-1187937 c.budapest@agora.stm.it

New York: +1-212-9801072 trans.rad.ny@agora.stm.it

Rome: +39-6-68805396 pr.Roma@agora.stm.it