PRESS CONFERENCE IN PRAGUE
As it was announced before, the press conference of the Transnational Radical Party for the presentation of the Czech edition of the booklet "End Prohibition Now; The Radical Solution to the Drug" was held last Wednesday (November the 27th) in Prague, with the participation of Paolo Pietrosanti and Olga Cechurova (members of the General Council of TRP), Jan Jarab (doctor, translator and member of TRP) and Milan Gelnar (director of ARGO Publishers).
In spite of the fact that a number of invited Czech media and foreign correspodents announced their attendance, only the reporters of both Czech press agencies (CTK and CTI) and the daily PRACE were present at the conference.
Press agencies have prepared and spread around the same evening their reports from this conference, so far no newspapers published anything about it.
Olga Cechurova gave later a large interview on the booklet and on the activities of the TRP in general to the Prague Post, the English language weekly published in Prague. This interview is supposed to be published in the very next issues of the prestigeous Czech weekly.
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MEETINGS IN THE CZECH PARLIAMENT
Last Thursday (November the 28th) the representatives of the TRP, Paolo Pietrosanti and Olga Cechurova, were received in the Czech Parliament by the deputies Jaroslav BASTA, Vice-Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Defence and Security (Social-Democratic Party) and Cestmir Hofhanzl (Civic Democratic Aliance).
The meetings were devoted this time to the initiatives for freedom of Tibet and democracy in China and the concrete way MPs can support it. Therefore the representatives of the TRP sumbitted again the appeal to the General Secretary of UN to receive the Dalai Lama and the support of the candidacy of Wei Jingsheng for the Nobel Peace Prize 1997. Both the MPs declared themselves to be engaged in supporting the Appeals' initiative.
The possibility to approve a resolution on the situation in Tibet inn the Czech Parliament was discussed once more and stressed the importance of such a step.
Both M.P.s expressed their strong sympathy for these initiatives as well as their will to support them and submit them to their colleagues.