Brussels, August 26, 1995. Just a few days from the opening of the Fourth UN World Women's Conference (Peking September 4-15) and the Forum of Non-Government Organizations (Hairou August 30 - September 8) unacceptable facts are being verified regarding the work of the Chinese authorities and ECOSOC.

The UN Economic and Social Council, under pressure from the Chinese government, has denied accreditation to Tibetan women for the UN Conference. Although they conceded in allowing a few of the NGO organizations which support the Tibetan cause into the NGO forum in Hairou, the Chinese government claims that Tibetan women are already being represented as part of the Chinese women's contingent.

These facts, aside from confirming the authoritarian and anti-libertarian orientation of the Peking regime, make up another unacceptable precedent: the UN's abandoning the choice of participation to the host country. This choice, whether or not someone has the right to participate in a conference organized to by the UN, is made at the whim of the host country's own political criteria.

For these reasons, the Transnational Radical Party asks the governments of participating countries what initiatives they intend to take in order to reestablish the normal conditions for the running of the Conference and the Forum and, where this is not possible, to propose a transfer of the Forum and Conference to another place.

Radical Party

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