New York, Nov. 14th, 1996

Press Release

APPEAL CONSIGNED TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

THE PRESIDENT DECLARES HIMSELF IN FAVOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AND SHARES HIS PREOCCUPATIONS ABOUT ZAIRE.

Ismail Razali, President of the 51st General Assembly of the UN, received on Wednesday morning a delegation of the International Committee of "There Is No Peace Without Justice" and the Transnational Radical Party headed by European Parliamentarians Adelaide Aglietta, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, and Marino Busdachin.

The President, after expressing his appreciation for the international campaign of the two organizations, he assumed the responsibility of transmitting the documentation received to the President of the Sixth Committee of the General Assembly and the single delegations who will be called upon in December to pronounce their opinion on the matter.

Following the request on behalf of the Transnational Radical Party and "There Is No Peace Without Justice" to solicit the decision to send a multinational force to West Zaire, the President said that he would personally intervene with the current President of the Security Council on the matter, because the choice is between saving human lives and not being involved.

Ambassador Razali has supported the idea of the necessity of a reformation of the United Nations and that this process must begin with the legislators of the member nations. In order to achieve everything there is the need to inform public opinion; the press must let the world know that there is an organization known as the UN and that this organization, despite its problems and limits, works well.