FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Moscow - October 2, 1995

RADICAL PARTY

MOSCOW OFFICE

Ul. Trubnaja 25-2-49

103051 Moscow, Russia

Tel./fax +7-095-9239127

E-mail: rpmoscow@glas.apc.org

Rp.Moscow@agora.stm.it

The solemn laying down the flowers to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi has taken place today at 2.00 PM near Gandhi monument on Indira Gandhi square in Moscow. The action was organized by Tibet Culture & Information Center and Transnational Radical Party. About 60 persons - friends of Tibet, Radicals, members of Moscow Buddhist community - came today to the monument of the person whose name associates worldwide with the word "nonviolence".

The meeting was opened by Mr Navang Rabgyal, the representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Russia, CIS and Mongolia. He said, in particular:

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The participants of the ceremony, adherents of very different religious and philosophical views, have made the common prayer and silent meditation for world peace.

Afterwards, Nikolaj Khramov, the coordinator ad interim of the Radical Party in Russia and CIS, declared:

<< Today I have the honor to represent here the Radical Party - a transnational non-governmental organization, on whose emblem you can see the face of Mahatma Gandhi as a symbol of our commitment to the political nonviolence. We - Radicals, friends of Tibet, human rights militants and freedom fighters - are equipped by the most powerful weapon which was ever known in the history: by force of nonviolence. Under this banner we are being united in parliaments and on the squares of our cities - from Rome, where the same manifestation is currently being held, to Moscow, from New York to New Delhi. And I am sure: with such a weapon we shall overcome. We will get China without any political prisoner - be it a Tibetan or a Chinese, we will get Tibetan culture monuments not being destroyed and Tibetan nation itself not being under threat of annihilation. Tibet will be free. And it means that everybody among us will be more free in this world.>>

For more information:

(095) 9239127 - Radical Party;

(095) 2220805 - Tibet Culture & Information Center.