Dear Sir,

For the last five years, thanks to the Consultative Status that the Transnational Radical Party (TRP) enjoys at the United Nations, dozens of people, among whom victims of the most heinous violence, have had the opportunity to take the floor before Governments' delegates from all over the world. They had spoken, among other things, in support of the campaign for a universal moratorium of capital executions and for the establishment of an International Criminal Court.

Now the TRP risks to be formally expelled from the UN. In fact, the Russian Federation has officially requested that the TRP consultative status be withdrawn. In particular the TRP is accused of having given the opportunity to speak before the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, to Mr. Akhiad Idigov, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chechen Parliament, and to have proposed an antiprohibitionist reform of national legislation as well as of the International Conventions on Drugs.

On 27 July 2000, during this Summer's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) session, the TRP could already be expelled from the UN. The final decision could be deferred to a subsequent session if only a group of country would make an explicit request.

It is for these reasons that we ask you to sign the appeal that we are pleased to attach to this letter, and to support the extraordinary enrolment campaign to the Transnational Radical Party as long as this threat will continue.

With our warmest regards,

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