ABSTRACT: The motion on the ex-Yugoslavia situation - which Marco Pannella was the first to sign - signed on 24 May 1992 by 351 Italian deputies (out of 630 the equivalent of 68%), marks an unprecedented parliamentary episode. The most outstanding parliamentary figures have signed a text harshly criticizing Italian foreign policy to date. Those who signed include the Presidents or Vice-Presidents of all the political groups, as well as Emilio Colombo, Mario Segni, Roberto Formigoni (Christian Democrat); Stefano Rodotà, Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies, Willer Bordon, Fabio Mussi (Democratic Left); Silvano Labriola, Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies, Aldo Aniasi, Claudio Signorile (Socialist); Marco Formentini, Umberto Bossi, Roberto Maroni (Northern League); Vincenzo Tarantino (Social Movement); Mauro Dutto, Oscar Mamḿ (Republican); Renato Altissimo, Alfredo Biondi, Vice preseident of the Chamber of Deputies, Valerio Zanone (Liberal); Dino Madaudo, Antonio Cariglia (Social Democrat); Fran

cesco Rutelli, Gianni Mattioli, Fulco Pratesi (Greens); Diego Novelli, Leoluca Orlando (Rete); Helga Thaler Ausserhofer, Luciano Caveri, Giancarlo Acciaro, Mario Rigo, Mixed Parliamentary Group, the whole group of the Pannella List.

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As we write, the latest Radical Party initiative to denounce Europe and Italy's grave responsibility for the attack of Bosnia-Herzegovina and to demand a series of drastic sanctions against the criminal Serbian regime, is the parliamentary motion published on this page. It has already been signed by the majority of the members of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. This transnational initiative is now being launched in many parliaments. In Romania, over 40 deputies have signed the same text, while the Macedonia Ministry of Information has had the text translated and distributed to the Republic's members of Parliament. Similar initiatives are being taken in the Republics of Russia, the Ukraine and Estonia, and in other European countries.

(THE PARTY new - N. 7 - May 1992)

The Chamber,

condemns the war policy and racist policy followed by the Belgrade regime, which first in Croatia and now in Bosnia-Herzegovina, is massacring whole populations, forcing over a million people to become refugees, oppressing two million Albanians in Kosovo, systematically destroying cities and monuments of human civilization, and sowing the seeds of racial hatred by raising it to the level of political and state morality;

deliberates that no recognition be given by the international community, the European Community and Italy to the new entity called the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; that all relations be severed with the ex-Republic of Yugoslavia, by denying the principle of continuity between this republic and that republic, without any reservation and without delay; that therefore all representatives in the ex-Republic of Yugoslavia should be withdrawn and all its alleged representatives should not be recognized as representatives of the new entity, which is neither recognized nor recognizable in the present situation;

binds the Italian Government to exclude any recognition in future peace talks of the current "ethnic redistribution" pursued and imposed by the war, massacres and terror that have so far produced a million refugees and to ensure the refugees' right to return immediately to their homeland, to their own countries as recognized by the international community, the European Community and Italy; and also to exclude any recognition of the so-called Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until such time as it should constitutionally and legally give all the citizens of Serbia and Montenegro, beginning with the Albanians, Hungarians and those of Sangiaccato, the same rights that the Republics of Croatia, Slovenia and Macedonia have already given citizens and minorities;

denounces the policy of the international community, and first and foremost of the European Community, as being the concomitant cause of the current tragedy, since they are accomplices of the aggressors, racists and militarists who are putting the whole of ex-Yugoslavia to fire and sword; furthermore this policy has been implemented in violation of all the provisions of international law and, as far as Italy is concerned, has been decided in contempt of the deliberations and tendencies dictated by Parliament;

denounces that this policy is repeating the tragic, cynical and blind mistakes made in the nineteen-thirties and later, with regard to Nazi and Stalinist atrocities;

binds the Government to take every possible and necessary action immediately in the United Nations, the European Community and the CSCE to implement strong measures and sanctions against the aggressor and stop the war;

especially binds the government to ask the United Nations Security Council to decree a total embargo on the Republics of Serbia and Montenegro, and ban all military planes and ships from ex-Yugoslavia's air and sea space until the army has withdrawn from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia;

binds the Government to implement immediately what has been set down in this motion, and in every way and by every means legally possible to ensure the defence of the ex-Yugoslavians' human, civil and political rights and an adequate solution for defeating the aggressors, isolating them and condemning them for their civil and war crimes.