ABSTRACT: Papers (motions, amendments, appeals, statements) introduced during the first session of the 36th Congress of the Radical Party (Rome, 30 April - 3 May 1992). The papers will be examined during the second session of the Congress, to be held, according to the new calendar (text N. 4293), "by the month of January 1993".

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SPECIAL MOTION on the posible initiatives for ex-Yugoslavia;

Zdravko Tomac

The transnational Radical Party, at it's 36'th congress in Rome, where present, other than it's

ordinary representatives, members of parliaments and governments of more than 30 states and 76 political parties in various countries in the world; has also discussed the difficult situation in the territories of ex-Yugoslavia and approves the following propositions.

The Radical Party Congress.

1) invites all governments, political parties and international institutions to take economic and political measures against the fascist Serbian and Montenegran government and their army, until they stop, immediately , the aggresion against Croasia and Bosnia and Herzgovinia, and threats of war against Kosovo and Macedonia. The continual delay of the decision in favour of strong measures against the aggresion, not only allows the continuation of the killing of women and children and the genocide of entire populations, but also, in a certain sense, encourages the aggressor.

In this way the European and world states, and the international institutions assume their responsability for new victimes. This is why the Congress asks all denocratic citizens to apply pressure on their own governments and international institutions, until they intervene with effective measures to stop the war. They must call for the immediate withdrawal of the Croasian army, from Bosnia and Herzegovinia and from Kosovo.

2) Invites the democraic opinion of Italy and of all the world, govrnments and international institutions to send, immediately, help to the refugees and those ecsaped from Bosnia and Herzegovinia and from Croasia.

3) Invites those taking part at the Congress, members of governments and parliaments, and political parties of all the world present here to call for the immediate release of all the prisoners of this dirty war on the territory of ex-Yugoslavia and to guarantee with all the disposible means of the international community, as well as on the territory of ex-Yugoslavia, human rights and the rights of the populations.

The congress underlines the necessity to take measures to defend the human rights and the rights of the populations of Kosovo and Vojvodina. In the same way defend the rights of the Albanians of Kosovo to decide themselves their future.

It also asks the international institutions to take measures, adapted to defend the right of the Magiari, Croasians and other minorities in Vojvodina, of the Albanians in the South of Serbia, of the muslims of the region of Sandzak and on all the territories of ex-Yugoslavia in the same way that they defend themselves, with constitutional laws, the rights of the Serbian minority in Croasia.

4) All the new states born after the collapse of Yugoslavia must give guarantees before obtaining international recognition, accepting and demonstrating to be able to give standards of human rights and rights of the populations expressed in the institutions and in the international documents. In this context, the so-called Federal Republic of Yugoslavia cannot have any privilages and cannot have be accepted or recognised automatically by the international community.

The congress strongly condemns the behaviour of some states and institutions which block the enactment of energetic sanctions against Serbia, Montenegro and their army which continues, unpunished, to murder women and children, destroy cities and to take from entire populations not only the rights of freedom and independance, but also the right to life. All of those who block, and make it impossible to take measures against the agressor, have complete political moral responsability for new destructions.

It invites all conscientious people who cannot stand by while in the heart of Europe women and children are killed, without taking all possible measures to urge their own governments and polititians to bind themselves according to international treaties of human rights, and national liberty, and to defend everyones right to life.

5) Therefore we propose that this congress appeals to the Council of the European Community until in the discussion of the recognition of Macedonia asks for the abolition of every form of discrimination against the Albanians who represent 35% of the population in the republic.

Zdravko Tomac.