THE TRANSNATIONAL RADICAL PARTY AND PEACE WITH JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL URGE THE UNITED NATIONS THROUGH THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE TO RECOGNIZE THAT THE HISTORIC MOMENT IS NOW TO CREATE AN ORGAN FOR WORLD PEACE AND JUSTICE BY CONVENING AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF PLENIPOTENTIARIES FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PERMANENT INTERNATIONAL COURT IN 1997

New York, March 29, 1996. Indeed the necessity of the two Ad Hoc Tribunals to address the volatile and tragic situations in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda was felt very deeply by the international community. This, however, was not and is not a solution to acts that have repeated themselves innumerable times throughout history and will certainly find reasons to repeat themselves.

After years of suggestions and proposals, in September 1994, The United Nations General Assembly entrusted the International Law Commission with the task of elaborating a draft statute for the establishment of a Permanent International Criminal Court. Discussion of the statute by both Ad Hoc Committees and further elaboration by the Sixth Committee created a foundation for The Preparatory Committee to draft and negotiate text of a statute for a permanent international criminal court.

The international community must ask itself: "What is the solution?", "Will in loco Tribunals be sufficient to meet the explosive and implosive situations that can allow greedy and delusionary aggressors to perpetrate and incite the perpetration of hideous crimes?"

The Transnational Radical Party and Peace With Justice International believe the only answer is a categorical "NO", which must be coming in unison from the conscience of all the members of the world community: the powerful as well as the powerless since it is in the degree of elimination of this distinction that is the progress and evolution of civil legal systems.

What purpose has the concept of society if not to guarantee those rights that have cost thousands of years and lives to recognize as inalienable?

The Transnational Radical Party and Peace With Justice International would like to reaffirm their conviction in the international function of a United Nations capable of seizing this ripe moment to bring about the creation of a Permanent International Criminal Court whose mission and authority is to safeguard those inalienable human rights.

We urge, therefore, the United Nations and the Sixth Committee to:

- make the courageous and ethical step in declaring CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, WAR CRIMES, GENOCIDE and AGGRESSION under the jurisdiction of, and punishable by a duly established Permanent International Criminal Court;

- bring to fruition the exhausting work of many months of discussion by a mandate to negotiate for the final draft of the Statute;

- maximize their ability for mutual respect and understanding in order to reach a compromise on the diverse and complex juridical, technical and administrative issues that the creation of an ICC entails;

- accept the generous offer of the Italian Government to host an International Conference as an opportunity to set a date of 1997 for a diplomatic conference.

The Transnational Radical Party and Peace With Justice International, having worked to promote this project for over three years within the world community of people, parliamentarians and governments, recognize the arduousness of this task, but also, they would like to remind all delegates and their governments of the historic opportunity to offer humanity and specially the weaker and defenseless part of humanity, a bright and permanent ray of hope by establishing an international institution whose universal acceptance guarantees the deterrence and prosecution of crimes against humanity thus promoting peace and justice for all.

Radical Party

No Peace without Justice