ABSTRACT: The text of the motion on the situation in ex-Yugoslavia passed by the Federal Council of the Radical Party which met in Rome from 20 to 22 September 1991.

The Radical Party's federal Council,

considering the necessity to acknowledge that according to all parameters of international and national law, the Yugoslav federal institutions have lost all basis of legality;

considering the necessity to denounce the falsehood according to which the one under way in Croatia is a civil war, and not an international conflict following an aggression;

considering the necessity to draw all due consequences from the statement of the President of the federal Republic and of the federal Prime Minister, according to whom the army is operating outside and against the orders of the legitimate authorities, and that therefore the military operations carried out by the federal army take the shape of crimes in all respects;

considering the necessity to denounce the systematic and murderous oppression of the Albanian people and the occupation of Kossovo as well as the complete violation of the constitutional norms that ensure political and administrative autonomy to that region;

considering the necessity to denounce the irresponsible blindness of the international community generally and of the E.C. particularly faced to the war of aggression under way in Croatia and to the persecution of the population of Kossovo;

considering the necessity to recognize the autonomous republics and regions of ex-Yugoslavia as subjects of international law as the premise to an effective peace initiative in the region in cases ratified by diplomatic and constitutional procedures;

considering the necessity for the U.N. Security Council to deal at once with the aggression of the Croatian Republic and the occupation of part of its territory, with the same urgency and determination used for the Gulf crisis;

asks its militants and representatives in the different parliamentary institutions to agree on all necessary initiatives to urge

a) the immediate recognition of the republics of former Yugoslavia that have democratically proclaimed their independence, the possibility for the other republics and autonomous regions to decide it and the restoration of legality in Kossovo;

b) the countries of the E.C. to keep faith to the commitments taken and establish a final date, no later that the end of September, by which they will recall their ambassadors from Belgrade, will enact embargo measures against Serbia and the interdiction of the Croatian and Slovenian air space if the assailing army will not have withdrawn from Croatia;

c) the U.S. Security Council, in conformity with articles 41 and 42 of the Charter, to deal with the serious threat to security and peace represented by the aggression under way in Croatia and by the persecution and oppression of the population of Kossovo;

d) the E.C., also on the basis of association agreements with the autonomous Republics and regions of ex-Yugoslavia, to offer a supranational guarantee for the rights of the national, ethnical and religious minorities in each of the above.