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The motion, passed with a single unfavorable vote by the Radical Party's Federal Council held in Zagreb from 31 October to 3 November, denounces the behaviour of the European Community and of Italy vis-à-vis the situation in former Yugoslavia: passive acknowledgment of the oppression of the inhabitants of Kosovo; defence of the Yugoslav federal unity and therefore encouragement to the Serbian aggression; non-recognition of the Republics which have declared their independence.

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The Radical Party's Federal Council, met in its second session in Zagreb from 31 October to 3 November 1991,

notes that the recent events confirm both the analyses and the judgments expressed in the motion passed during the first session, and in particular:

repeats that the Yugoslav federal institutions have lost all juridical-constitutional foundation, and that the ongoing conflict is ever more clearly a war of aggression on the part of a military power which is no longer federal, but explicitly at the service of the authoritarian, militarist and expansionist Serbian regime alone.

It acknowledges with distress the terrible consequences of this war: not only the grief, the sufferance, the negation of humanity which it causes, but also the precedent which it represents vis-à-vis the national conflicts that are arising from the dissolution of the Communist world. This war highlights the inadequacy of the current supranational institutions to provide a peaceful solution, in a system of democratic guaranties, to the national conflicts that break out every day in the world;

states that the victims of this war of aggression are not only the citizens of Croatia, but also the Serbian populations and the populations of the other republics of former Yugoslavia which are forced to bring death, to die and to degrade themselves in the violence of a regime which has denied them every possibility of choice and of democratic development;

asks each and all to realize that this tragedy occurring in the heart of Europe involves the primary and inescapable responsibilities of Europe at large and of the European Community, whom the peoples of former Yugoslavia have in vain appealed to, and the inertia of which, made of conniving tolerance and of short-sightedness faced to the abyss which it prepares for all, recalls the ruinous inertia of the European democracies of the thirties faced to the aggressions of Nazism and fascism.

a) Europe has acknowledged the occupation and the systematic and bloody oppression of the Albanian population of Kosovo as well as the violation of the constitutional norms which were to ensure political and administrative independence to that region without protesting, thus sacrificing that people to the reasons of a "political realism" the consequences of which are now evident;

b) the European Community's stubborn insistence in defending the Yugoslav federal unity against all evidence has encouraged and legitimated the extremism and the aggression of the Serbian army;

c) the international non-recognition of the Republics which have democratically proclaimed their independence, first of all on the part of the European Community and of its member states, has prevented the formal definition of the international character of the conflict, and therefore the request for the intervention of the U.N. Security Council, which in this case was necessary.

Moreover, considering the new terms of the situation:

1) the Community has continued to guarantee cease-fires, which have been systematically violated, without adopting the necessary and consequent sanctions against the assailants;

2) the new proclamations of independence and of separation from the policy of Belgrade have made the dissolution of the Yugoslav federation even more evident;

3) the Italian government, in the context of the decisions taken by the EEC at the Conference of The Hague, has finally announced its intention to recognize the Republics of Slovenia and Croatia, but only at the beginning of next year;

The Federal Council

denounces the irremediable contradiction in the behaviour of the European Community, and especially of Italy, which on the one hand recognize the right to independence of the Republics of Yugoslavia, and on the other hand, by postponing the recognition itself, authorize the coupmongers to continue their work of destruction and death and to complete the military annexation of part of the Croatian territory;

fully endorses the method and the objectives of the nonviolent fasting actions announced during the Federal Council;

states that it recognizes the Parliament and the government of Kosovo as the legitimate representatives of that people, and proposes to give the Peace Nobel Prize to that Parliament and Government in consideration of its exemplary nonviolent response to oppression and abuse;

asks its militants and its elected representatives in the different parliamentary institutions to take on all necessary initiatives, starting with the ones that resort to the rigorous exercise of the force of nonviolence, in order to :

- immediately recognize the republics of former Yugoslavia which have democratically proclaimed their independence, ensure the other republics and independent regions the possibility of doing the same and appoint the legitimate representative of Kosovo at the Conference of The Hague;

- carry out an immediate economic and political embargo against Serbia if the latter does not suspend its military actions, particularly against Dubrovnik and Vukovar, and if it does not immediately withdraw the army from the occupied territories of the Republic of Croatia;

- operate in such a way as to eliminate th seat of former Yugoslavia from the United Nations and recall the ambassadors to former Yugoslavia from Belgrade;

- urge the U.N. Security Council to deal with the serious threat to security and peace represented by the aggression against Croatia and by the oppression and persecution of the Albanian population of Kosovo;

- urge the European Community to propose a supranational system of safeguards for the rights of the individual and of the national, ethnic and religious minorities.

Lastly, the Federal Council charges the party's organs and its militants, in their different responsibilities, with the task of

achieving the following initiatives:

Organizing an assembly and a demonstration of radical parliamentarians on the occasion of the summit of Maastricht on 12 December 1991;

Calling of a day of mobilization and demonstrations in the various cities and countries in front of the diplomatic missions of former Yugoslavia and of the countries of the E.C.;

Organization of a delegation of radical parliamentarians of different countries to force the military block of Dubrovnik;

Sending of a document to the parliamentarians who receive the newspaper "The New Party", urging them to address Lord Carrington asking for the implementation on the part of the European Community of the measures contained in the present motion;

Adhesion and participation in the peace march convened for 14 November;

Diffusion of an appeal addressed to the Serbian democratic forces urging them to demonstrate their conscientious objection against the ongoing war of aggression and to express the requests of freedom and democracy of the people of the Serbian Republic and the organization of a delegation of radical parliamentarians in Belgrade, in support of the resistance of the Serbian democrats;

collection of signatures for a transnational popular petition for the recognition of the Republics of Croatia and Slovenia and for the reinstatement of the rule of law in Kosovo.