THE ACP-UE EQUALITY ASSEMBLY ADOPTS TWO IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS IN FAVOR OF THE INSTITUTION OF THE PERMANENT PENAL TRIBUNAL AND THE INSTITUTION OF A UNIVERSAL BAN ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

Luxembourg- Brussels, September 27th, 1996. The ACP-UE equality assembly (which comprises 65 African, Pacific, and Caribbean nations- as well as the fifteen states of the European Union), reunited in assembly in Luxembourg, have approved two resolutions of the Transnational Radical Party, the associations of "No Peace without Justice", and "Hands Off Cain", which were presented by deputy Bernard CASTAGNEDE of the Radical European Alliance.

For the resolution of the institution of a International Penal Tribunal, the ACP-UE assembly especially requested that:

- the 51st General assembly of the United Nations renew the mandate of the Preparatory Committee and establish the convocation of the Plenipotentiary Conference before the end of 1998;

- the organizations and regional and international institutions contribute their collaboration to the Preparatory Committee of the Diplomatic Plenipotentiary Conference.

Regarding the abolition of the death penalty, the text voted upon by the Equality Assembly asks that:

- the States in which the death penalty is still accepted, and who are members of the Lome' Convention, decide on a moratorium of three years;

- the states who are members of the Lome' Convention support at the next meeting of the General assembly of the United Nations a proposal for a universal moratorium on capital punishment.

Transnational Radical Party