Special Item on Kosovo

Oral Statement by the Transnational Radical Party

Delivered in the special Session on Kosovo by Paolo Pietrosanti on April 1st 1999

Madam Chair,

the entire international community and each individual have the responsibility to have left a people and a country alone. This people is the one of Serbia, is the one of Yugoslavia.The comunity of the states has left this country in the hands of a person as Mr Milosevic.Such a responsibility cannot be hidden.And it is first of all for the sake of Serbs that you, that the community of States has to take strong decisions. Starting from the decision to make a policiy completely different from the one that has been managed so far for so many years.

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi used to say that there is a duty not to accept violence. The bes way how to respond to violence is the nonviolent action; when there is no chanche for that, and such a chanche has been denied by the absence of politics, by the absence of the community of States, by the absence, also, of my Europe, violence is much better, and it is a duty to act using violence, rather than being a coward.

I am quoting Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the face of whom is in the symbol of my organization, the Transnational Radical Party.

The same organization has opened several months ago an initiative, the one of the request, of the juridically relevant request to the General Prosecutor of the International Tribunal on former Yugoslavia to indict Mr Milosevic for crimes against humanity.

Such a request has been signed by over 180.000 individuals, among them over 1.000 MPs, and among them dozens of Members of Government from dozens of States.

Well, this request has been delivered time ago to the General Prosecutor of the Tribunal on former Yugoslavia. We ask ourselves and everybody: which evidences is Ms Arbour waiting for before opening a trial?

Out of ghe door you will find a report that demonstrates the chain of command that brings to Mr Milosevic, and there are juridical prooves. Also the Report has been already delivered to the International Tribunal on former Yugoslavia - you can have it, it is just out of the door.

We want Mr Milosevic to be trialed, to have all the juridical warranties each of us want for her/him her/himself.

Thank you, Madam Chair