According to the offices of the Transnational Radical Party (TRP) in Tirana, the Russian Federation has proposed suspending the TRP's consultative status at the United Nations Organization (UN), making unfounded and defamatory allegations that the TRP supports Chechen terrorists, receives proceeds from international narcomafias and promotes pedophilia. According to the same source, on 11 April 2000 the Hon. Akhiad Idigov, Chechen parliamentarian and special envoy of the President of Chechnya, made a speech under the aegis of the TRP to the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, and this is the cause of recent Russian actions against the party.

On Wednesday 27 September at New York's UN headquarters, after a debate on the TRP case involving 19 members of the UN Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), the French delegation contended that there was not enough evidence to proceed against the TRP, asking instead for a roll-call vote to reconsider a three-year suspension adopted by the Committee in June 2000. Germany, Romania, Chile and the United States lined up with France, asking that all accusations be withdrawn and the case closed for lack of evidence. Pakistan and Senegal abstained, while Algeria, Bolivia, Colombia, China, Cuba, Ethiopia, India, Lebanon, Russia, Sudan, Tunisia and Turkey voted against the proposal. As a result, the earlier decision to recommend suspension still stands.

Olivier Dupuis, General Secretary of the Transnational Radical Party and Member of the European Parliament, declared to reporters that what happened in the Committee on NGOs on the one hand confirms the UN's commitment to freedom of speech (in the votes of the Europeans, the US and Chile), and on the other represents the approach of Putin's post-Soviet Russia to the principles of fair trial and the right of self-defense. "The decision which recommends a 3-year suspension of the TRP status, if ratified next 18 October, would create a dangerous precedent by which any regime can, with no evidence, request the withdrawal or suspension of the consultative status of NGOs, which, like the TRP, fight for the international rule of law and respect of fundamental human rights," concludes Dupuis's statement.