ABSTRACT: Motion unanimously approved (with 2 abstentions) by the Radical Party's Federal Council, Rome 1st-5th September 1989. Proposes specific initiatives in defence of Human Rights, especially in Third World countries.

THE FEDERAL COUNCIL

- Considered the reports presented to the Federal Council on the situation in Africa in the context of the relationship between the respect of human rights and the rights of peoples and the requirements for economic and social development, in a situation where human geography does not correspond to political geography and requires a transnational approach.

- Considered the objective complicity which exists on the economic, financial (etc.) planes, between the States guilty of violation of Human Rights and the States committed to the defence of Human Rights;

- Considered the position taken by numerous political figures throughout the world, in favour of Human Rights;

- The meeting of the Federal Council of the transnational Radical Party which was held in Rome from September 1 to September 5, 1989, posed the following objectives:

1) Complete, in preparation for the next Congress of Lomé IV, the normative texts, and in particular the African Charter of Human Rights, adopted by the 18th Conference of the heads of State and government of the Organisation for African Unity (OUA) in June of 1981 in Nairobi(Kenya), with a provision for control of the application of that Charter; for example, with Court of Justice, to which all citizens have the right to make appeals

2) Denounce publicly the de facto complicity between the governments of democratic States and dictatorial regimes, for example completing the Annual Report of Amnesty International, with the indication of every type of aid which the democratic regimes provide to totalitarian governments, ensuring thus the maintenance of their power;

3) Obtain assent of the international community, as the President of the French Republic, Mitterrand, declared, that "the obligation of non-interference stops at that point where the danger of non-assistance begins, when there be even just one person who has fallen victim to the arbitrariness of power".

The Federal Council, established that the transnational form of the Radical Party cannot fail to facilitate the success of actions required for this objective, therefore appeals to the citizens of all nations--in particular in Africa--to contribute, together with the Radical Party, to the achievement of these aims.