ABSTRACT: These are some of the new members of the transnational cross-party from Argentina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Macedonia, Romania, Russia, the US and the Ukraine:

(THE PARTY new - n. 6 - march 1992)

Pavel Panfilov, elected for the second time as deputy of the people of the Republic of Estonia, President of the "Collaboration and Equal Rights" division, former official of the Komosomol and the former Communist Party:

"From the issues of "The New Party" that I have received, I have been able to understand the meaning of the Radical Party's project and political actions: it is a political force that wishes to take action throughout the world without limiting itself to state boundaries. This is why I have joined".

The following people have joined, amongst others:

Francesco Cimino, Socialist, Under-Secretary at the Italian Ministry of Agriculture and Forests;

Renato Corsetti, several times President of the Italian Esperantist Federation, and former Vice-President of the World Esperantist Association ("I'm joining because the Radical Party upholds everyone's right to learn an International Language, and not a foreign language";

Elena Ene and Joan Turlacu, Romenian parliamentarians, members of the National Salvation Front; Carol Matei Tveniciov, deputy of the Din Banat Bulgarian Union;

Muhamedagic Izez, member of the Bosnia-Herzegovinian Parliament, Party for Democratic Action;

Andrej Kovalj, Secretary of the United Social Democratic Party of the Ukraine;

Alexej Korotaev, Russian historian, Chairman of the Committe for the Revision of "Memorial";

Alexander Trubachev, deputy of the Soviet of St. Petersburg, Russia, Independent;

Hector Jorge Velazquez, Argentinian Senator;

Gore Vidal, American author and screenwriter;

George Wald, American, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine 1967.

The following Croatians have joined:

Silvije Degen, Vice-President of the Socialist Party; Ivo Lenic, Marin Mileta, lawyer, Niko Popovic, jurist, Branko Poznjak, economist, Vice Profaka, professor, Bosko Siljeg, Ivan Vuletic, members of the Coatian Parliament, of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ); Josip Pinezic, Chairman of the Lawyers' Club of the HDZ, and Ante Prkacin, parliamentarian, member of the Party for Rights (HSP).

The parliamentarians from Macedonia who have joined:

Abdurahaman Aliti, Hamit Aliu, Vebi Dzemaili, Muhamed Halili, of the Albanian Minority, members of the PDP.

Aleksandr Aleksandrov, aged 79, a mathemetician from St. Petersburg, and a member of the Academy of Science, has written to us saying: "When I spoke recently at a conference on European collaboration organized by the Academy of the Lincei in Rome, I said: scientists must not dedicate themselves to military technology, because he who builds a weapon prepares death. And this is a very grave sin. I am against killing, especially when condoned by the state. I spoke of the need to abolish the death penalty thirty years ago, when I was a member of the Supreme Soviet. I am joining the Radical Party to uphold these same ideas".

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These are the ten countries with the highest number of Radical Party members on 9 March 1992. The number of Italian members on the same date was 1,211.

Russia 553

The Ukraine 245

Croatia 127

Azerbaijan 115

Czechoslovakia 70

Romania 54

Kazakhstan 30

Hungary 28

Byelorussia 28

Kirghizia 18