DECEMBER '93: TRIAL OF WAR CRIMES

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SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 19 SEPTEMBER

INTERNATIONAL DAYS FOR THE

TRIBUNAL ON CRIMES COMMITTED IN EX-YUGOSLAVIA:

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Rome 17/9/93 R.P. 8 - (14.00)

WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL: TOMORROW AND SUNDAY TO SIGN THE APPEAL.

NON-STOP SIGNATURE GATHERING IN MANY ITALIAN AND EUROPEAN CITIES.

THE RADICAL PARTY HEADQUARTERS IN VIA DI TORRE ARGENTINA 76 IN ROME WILL BE OPEN TO GATHER SIGNATURES.

IN ROME, GATHERING SPORTS IN L.GO GOLDONI ON SATURDAY AND AT TREVI FOUNTAIN ON SUNDAY. IN ZAGREB STANDS AND DEMONSTRATIONS IN TKALCIEVA STREET, ONE OF THE CROATIAN CAPITAL'S MAIN ARTERIES.

NON-STOP BROADCASTING BY RADIO RADICALE AS FROM SATURDAY 10 A.M.

A major campaign to gather signatures on the appeal promoted by the radical party is scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday 18, and Sunday 19 September. Gathering spots will be prepared in many Italian and European cities, while demonstrations will be held to increase the public opinion's awareness on the possibility of punishing the crimes committed after 1991 in the Balkans.

Stands will be available in many cities, including: MOSCOW, KIEV, BUDAPEST, ZAGREB, PRAGUE, BRUSSELS, BARCELONA and LISBON, and in Italy in ROME, MILAN, TURIN, GENUA, PALERMO, VERONA AND REGGIO EMILIA and other centres.

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TEN NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS AMONG THE FIRST SIGNATORIES OF THE INTERNATIONAL APPEAL TO THE UNITED NATIONS.

LATEST SIGNATORIES INCLUDE RITA LEVI MONTALCINI, IRISH NOBEL PRIZE FOR PEACE MAIREAD CORRIGAN AND THE AMERICAN JOSEPH BRODSKI, NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE IN 1987.

Today's signatories:

from Italy: Umberto ECO, Achille BONITO OLIVA, art critic, President of the Venice Biennale, philosopher Massimo CACCIARI, physicist Antonino ZICHICHI, mayor of Bologna Walter VITALI and vice mayor Franco DEGLI ESPOSTI, Mario CATTANEO, professor of philosophy of law at the university of Milan, Mario CALVO PLATERO, correspondent for Il Sole 24 Ore, Mario LANA, president of the forensic union for the safeguard of human rights, Green Euro-MP Virginio BETTINI, socialist Silvano LABRIOLA, deputy and vice President of the Chamber Maria Luisa SANGIORGIO (PDS), Wlodek GOLDKORN, journalist with L'Espresso; singer Francesco GUCCINI, President of the Venice Film Festival Gillo PONTECORVO, actors Paolo VILLAGGIO, Massimo GHINI, Valeria GOLINO and Fabrizio BENTIVOGLIO.

From other countries: Gerd POPPE, MP, Germany; John GUDENUS, MP, Austria, Warren ALLMAND, Senator, Canada; Maren GUNTHER and Claudia ROTH, Euro-MPs, Germany; Ioannis PESMAZOGLOU, Euro-MP, Greece; Alexandre GINZBURG, Soviet writer exiled in Paris; Beverly ALLEN, associate professor at Syracuse University (US); Manuel VAZQUEZ MONTALBAN, writer (Spain); Leopoldo ALAS, writer (Spain); RASGOTRA, vice President of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (India); Joachim KREYSLER, doctor of the International Red Cross (Switzerland); Peru EGURBIDE, correspondent for 'EL PAIS'; Croatian violinist Tonko NINIC; the Association of Croatian Unions; the Bosnian painter living in Zagreb Mersad BERBER; Rune HERSVIK, of the Worldview International Foundation (Norway).

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OVER 100 EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARIANS FROM ALL GROUPS ENDORSE THE APPEAL TO THE UNITED NATIONS. EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES PARAGRAPH RELATIVE TO THE INSTITUTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMES TRIBUNAL.

At the initiative of the Green Group and of the Liberal Group, the European Parliament has approved, in the resolution adopted on 16 September on the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, a paragraph in which Member States are asked to make all possible efforts to achieve the immediate constitution of the tribunal against crimes established by Resolution No. 827 of the United Nations Security Council.

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