Re: Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, 2001 Regular Session: 7 to 25 May 2001

Dear sir/madam,

The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations has reviewed the quadrennial report of the Transnational Radical Party. The Committee raised the following questions:

1. Please provide copies of the documents that your organization circulated during the fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth sessions of the Commission on Human Rights.

2. in this application for consultative status TRP indicated that it "does not receive funds from any government". How does this statement correspond with the fact that TRP as a political party represented both in national and European Parliaments receives financing from the governmental sources.

3. in 1998, TRP set up a political organization for the advertisement and distribution of drugs called 'Radical Anti-Prohibition Coordination (CORA). Why is 'CORA' mentioned neither in the TRP's application including the financial statement nor in the quadrennial report.

4. please provide comprehensive information on the activities of 'CORA' including its financial report, as well as the Constitution of this organization, the composition of its governing bodies and the description of the campaigns and projects carried out by 'CORA'.

5. please clarify in which countries is 'CORA' conducting its work.

6. in its materials 'CORA' refers to itself as to a political organization. What is the meaning of the political character of its work.

7. bearing in mind that since 1975 TRP has been engaged in illegal distribution of drugs, please specify the channels of acquisition or the sites of production of drugs, as well as the sites of storage and names of people involved in acquisition, production or storage of drugs.

8. does the TRP accuse governments which prohibit drugs of committing crimes against humanity?

9. does the TRP believe that the prohibition of all drugs as a crime against humanity should fall under the jurisdiction of the ICC?

10. how can struggle against the UN anti-drug conventions be combined with the consultative status of the TRP and the provisions of the ECOSOC resolution 1996/31 which clearly stipulates that 'aims and purposes of the organization should be in conformity with the spirit, purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations?'.

11. in the light of the fact that in 1998 TRP initiated a campaign for freedom of pedophilia, child pornography and prostitution in the internet, please express your attitude toward the ban on dissemination of pedophilia, child pornography and prostitution in the Internet please express your attitude toward the ban on dissemination of pedophilia, child pornography and prostitution in the Internet contained in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Optional Protocol hereto.

12. what is the position of TRP on criminal prosecution of persons involved in dissemination of pedophilia, child pornography and prostitution in the Internet?

Kindly reply by return fax so that the Committee may continue the consideration of your quadrennial report.

Sincerely yours,

Elizabeth Joyce Buchanan

NGO Section

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