The Radical Party's Federal Council, meeting in Rome from January 2 to January 7, 1989

- points out and declares that, while in Central and East Europe numerous States are rediscovering political democracy through convulsive processes which often cause bloodshed though they are are glorious, one of the western democracies, the United States of America, instead of playing the role of a model and a reference point, has violated the rules of international justice, invading the State of Panama thereby causing the death of thousands of harmless citizens and removing the Dictator Antonio Noriega from the country's judicial processes,

- likewise points out and declares that in such an emergency,the Catholic Church has renounced its intransigent defence of the secular right of sanctuary, putting the reasons of Caesar before those of principle which are far more in accordance with its international role and the values it has professed,

- finally points out and declares the danger that the events in Panama indicate the start of an interventionist escalation by the the United States in Central and South America, justified by the "drug war",

The Federal Council

- reaffirms that the only just, nonviolent and legal response able to oppose and to put an end to both the criminal drug trade and those violations of international and internal justice perpetrated in the name of the so-called "drug war" (a war sanctified by the implicit support of the Catholic hierarchies) is the antiprohibitionist policy, to be affirmed by means of the transnational Radical Party,

- addresses an urgent appeal to the men and women of the American continent to enable them, by enrolment in the Radical Party, to make a civil response to the prohibitionist atrocity, just as other men and women in East Europe have been able to fight as Radicals against the Stalinist actrocities and are now making preparations, as Radicals, to create free and democratic institutions.