THE RADICAL PARTY HANDS OVER THE FIRST 100.000 SIGNATURES FOR THE INDICTMENT OF MILOSEVIC TO THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR FORMER YUGOSLAVIA.

THE DEPUTY PROSECUTOR OF THE TRIBUNAL ASKS THE RADICAL PARTY TO PUT PRESSURE ON STATES TO HANDS OVER TO THE TRIBUNAL THE EVIDENCES BEING IN THEIR POSSESION.

The Hague - Rome, 1 February 1999 - A delegation of the Radical Party led by the Party's Secretary General, Olivier Dupuis, MEP, and composed Marino Busdachin, Paolo Pietrosanti, Mariano Giustino, Afrim Gjonpalaj and Paolo Atzori, have handed over today to the Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia, Mr. Graham Blewitt, more than 100.000 signatures of citizens and personalities of culture and politics for the immediate indictment of Yugoslav President Milosevic for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Among the 100.000 signatures there are over one thousand parliamentarians and VIPs, who have supported the appeal of the Radical Party, including Italian Interior Minister Rosa Russo Jervolino, Albanian Prime Minister Pandeli Majko, former Prime Ministers Michel Rocard, Wilfried Martens, Leo Tindemans, eurodeputies Otto von Habsburg, Antoinette Spaak, Nobel Prize winner John Polany, actresses Isabelle Adjani and Bianca Jagger, writers Andrè Gluksmann, Nino Manfredi, Milva, Vladimir Bukovskij, Ismaïl Kadare. Among the Italian politicians Marco Pannella, Antonio Di Pietro, Umberto Bossi, Achille Occhetto, Pierferdinando Casini.

While receiving the delegation of the Radical Party, the Deputy Prosecutor Blewitt has invited them in front of the present journalists to "put pressure on States which possess evidence needed by the Tribunal, to fully colaborate with the International Criminal Tribunal."

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