To the attention of Wei Jingsheng

Brussels, March 10, 1998

Dear Wei,

since our meeting of last November in New York where, on behalf of the Transnational Radical Party, I invited you to come to Brussels and Rome, I followed, through the press, many initiatives you have undertaken. Among those initiatives some conferences in Paris and London. A visit to the European Parliament in Brussels ...

Few days ago I knew that you were about to return to the European Parliament and to hold some conferences. The same way, quite by chance, I came to know that you'd be planning to attend the UN Human Rights Commission.

As far as we are concerned we have continued campaigning, either good or bad, a little bit left alone, for your candidacy to the Nobel Peace Prize, we have continued our guerilla inside the European Parliament in favour of a EU resolution in Geneva (with no results, unfortunetly) and other things.

You'd easily understand that, before such a long series of "coincidences", it's hard for me not to conclude that you have made choices that do not allow common initiatives.

That seems to me deeply sad, especially because I have really appreciated the lucidity and the determination of your positions and notably the ones which you have recently expressed in the article published in Le Monde. Position I completely share but position that - I'm unfortunetly convinced - less and less people, especially in the governmental and parlamentarians spheres, are sharing.

Best regards,

Olivier Dupuis