* Special motion by Cournot and Guissou on the African situation and initiatives against totalitarianism

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MOTION PRESENTED BY CLAUDE COURNOT AND BASILE GUISSOU (unanimously approved)

- Considering the reports presented at the Federal Council on the situation in Africa, from the point of view of the relationship between respect for human rights and the economic, social, cultural and political needs in a context where human geography does not correspond to political geography, and requires the transnational approach;

- considering the objective complicity which exists on the economic, financial etc. level, between the States guilty of violations of the Rights of Man, and those States who take it upon themselves to protect the Rights of Man;

- considering the position upheld by many political leaders all over the world, to encourage respect for the rights of human beings and peoples;

- the Federal Council of the transnational Radical Party meeting in Rome from September 1 to September 5, 1989, indicates the three following objectives:

1) To complete, in the context of the forthcoming Lom IV Convention, the regulation tests, and in particular the African Paper of the Rights of Man and Peoples, adopted from the 18th Conference of Heads of State and Government by the Organization of African Unity (OUA) in June 1981 in Nairobi, Kenya, with a means of controlling the application of this Paper, such as for example, a court of justice, to which every African citizen may appeal;

2) To denounce to public opinion the de facto complicity between the governments of democratic States and dictatorial regimes, for example, completing the annual report of Amnesty International, and indicating every type of aid which the democratic regimes supply to totalitarian governments thereby ensuring that their power is maintained;

3) To obtain recognition by the international community, of the declaration by the President of the French Republic, Francois Mitterrand on May 31, 1989, that "the duty of not interfering stops where the risk of not giving help starts", and to declare that such a risk begins even when a single person is the victim.

4) To support the initiative of a North-South Conference by 1990.

Having observed that the Radical Party's transnational form can only encourage the success of the necessary actions to reach this objective, the Federal Council invited citizens of all nationalities especially African, to make their contribution in the heart of the Radical Party for the successful outcome of this initiative.

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