(Moscow, 27 September 1991) - International seminar "The Right of Conscientious Objection to Military Service within the CSCE Member States" took place in the framework of parallel activities of the Conference on Human Dimension of CSCE (CSCE/CHD)in Moscow.

Conscientious objectors and representatives of NGOs from Denmark, Germany, Greece, USSR and Yugoslavia illuminated position of representative international bodies on the issuer of conscientious objection and told about personal experience of objection in their countries. The floor was taken by Spiros Divaris (Greece), member of Greek Committee for Conscientious Objection (GCCO), Yorgos Skouros (Greece), co-ordinator of the GCCO, conscientious objector, Preben Meier Pedersen (Denmark), representative of Amnesty International at the CSCE/CHD, Alexander Pronozin (USSR), member of the Radical Party, conscientious objector, Jure Piskur (Slovenia), lecturer at University of Copenhagen, conscientious objector, Stephan Philipp (Germany), co-ordinator of German organizations working for the protaction and the rights of conscientious objectors, Harald Wagner (Germany), representative of German christian organizations.

A number of Soviet officials took part in the Seminar. Among them Igor Mozgo, member of the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet promoting the question of conscientious objection in Russian Parliament, Lieutenent-Colonel of military justice Anatoli Pchelintsev and lawyer Nina Kolosova, both members of the USSR Supreme Soviet Working group on elaboration of legislation on alternative service. They focused on current Soviet legislation on compulsory recruitment, work of official legislative bodies for implementing the right of conscientious objection and perspectives in this respect.

The seminar was organized by Danish section of Greek Committee for Conscientious Objection with assistance of Soviet activists of Transnational Radical Party.

At the same day, September 27, reportage about the seminar was broadcasted by the Soviet TV news program Vesti which covers territory of all the Soviet Union and has audience of tens millions of people.