ABSTRACT: A political document to be submitted to the transnational congress and a document containing proposals to modify the statute have been passed at the conclusion of two days of intense debate among the members of the former U.S.S.R. coming from almost all new Independent States created after the fall of the Soviet Union. The conference (Kiev, December 12/13) was a pre-congress assembly, and it was geared to providing a political contribution for the February congress on the part of the members and MPs of the 15 new Republics.

The conference was opened by reports by Sasha Kalinin, Irina Podlessova, Maria Ivanjan, Nikolaj Khramov, Vladimir Ivanov, Vittoria Ter Nikogosjan and Marino Busdachin, who coordinates the radical party's activities in the former U.S.S.R.

On addressing the assembly, Sergio Stanzani said, "...so far it is the party, especially the "Italian" one, that has been giving, in terms of human resources, ideas and financial support...now it is up to you, also as an expression of the radical party's highly successful membership campaign, to contribute in terms of political proposals, active commitment on the part of the MPs, and effective construction of the transnational policy...failing which everything will have been useless...".

Over 35 federal councillors of the Party took part in the conference, including Andrea Tamburi, Antonio Stango, Sasha Kalinin, Stepan Grigorian and several other members of the Parliaments of the various Republics. The political document and the enclosure on the statute were passed by an overwhelming majority, 11 contrary votes and 7 abstentions.

POLITICAL DOCUMENT SUBMITTED BY THE CONFERENCE OF MEMBERS OF THE AREA OF THE FORMER U.S.S.R. AT THE RADICAL PARTY'S TRANSNATIONAL CONGRESS.

(Passed with an overwhelming majority, 11 contrary votes and 7 abstentions)

Kiev, December 12-13, 1992

The third conference of the members of the Radical Party of the New Independent State (former U.S.S.R.) held in Kiev on December 12-13 1992 at the conclusion of over 50 addresses and five days of work of the Commissions, held in August 1992 in Moscow:

POINTS OUT

the extraordinary nature of the results obtained by the political and organizational activity carried out by the members of the New Independent States (former U.S.S.R.). Such results were confirmed both by the undertaking of specific political initiatives that mark a first, significant step towards the creation of the transnational Party, and by the number of members (over 4500, 100 of whom are Members of Parliament) which represent more than 50% of the total number of members and which make possible the achievement of the objective of 5000 members by the February congress;

IDENTIFIES

the objective impossibility of financing the party in such as to fulfil the necessities as a precise limit to the construction of the transnational party;

CONFIRMS

the correctness of the radical positions on the international situation, and namely on the European one, as well as the need and the demand for a presence of the radical party in Eastern Europe and in the former U.S.S.R.;

POINTS OUT

the fact that the undeniable success of the membership campaign in the countries of central and eastern Europe and in Africa has corresponded to a failure of the RP in the "rich" Western countries and in the Northern hemisphere is a precise political indication. Likewise identifies the radical party as an adequate political instrument in the way of confronting the "lack" of democracy especially in formerly totalitarian countries;

CONFIRMS

that the fragile "new" democracies that have arisen after the fall of the communist system may represent an innovative drive for "real democracies" and the party-based regimes of Western Europe provided nationalism, and ethnic strife are eliminated and a policy of interdependency among the states and the different European regions is established;

DENOUNCES

as a top priority the need to create a new international law and to carry out a democratic reform of the international institutions that are currently in a position of criminal and irresponsible inadequacy in relation to the international political situation and to the conflicts under way in the former Yugoslavia, in the former U.S.S.R., in Africa, in the Middle Easter and in the other areas;

PROPOSES

to the Radical Party's Transnational Congress to assume the initiative for the democratization of the international institutions, organizing a series of projects aiming to replace the governmental representation with a parliamentary representation for each of the member States;

PROPOSES

to the Congress to take the initiative of promoting a debate among the MPs of the conflicting countries, regions and ethnic groups, starting from the MPs that are members of the radical party and, more in general, organizing an international conference of MPs (members of the radical party and not) with the aim of promoting associations and committees of MPs from different countries on specific subjects and parallel to the foreign policy of the single nations, with the ultimate goal of involving various parliaments on a single project;

PROPOSES

to the Congress to step up the activities and the active presence in the situations of grave conflict, such as in Bosnia and in the Balkans, and in the grave situations of conflict in the territories of the New Independent States;

PROPOSES

to the congress of the Radical Party to organize antiprohibitionist initiatives, both in the area of information and in the area of parliamentary activity at the European level, borrowing at the transnational level the experiences and proposals that are so far at the national level, with the urgent need to confront, also in the east European countries, the huge and fast spread of drug trade and of the free drugs market run by the multinational mafia;

PROPOSES

to the Congress of the Radical Party to invest as many economic and human resources as possible in the initiative for the abolition of the death penalty in the Russian federation and in the other New Independent States, in cases in which a political cooperation with the legislative commission of the Supreme Soviet is possible, in order to achieve an abolitionist act by the end of 1993.

PROPOSALS TO INTEGRATE AND MODIFY THE STATUTE PASSED BY THE CONFERENCE OF MEMBERS OF THE FORMER U.S.S.R. AS ENCLOSURE TO THE GENERAL POLITICAL DOCUMENT SUBMITTED TO THE TRANSNATIONAL CONGRESS

Kiev, December 12-13 1992

The third conference of members of the Radical Party of the area of the former U.S.S.R., which was held in Kiev on 11-12 December 1992 after hearing the addresses and taking into account the indications of the Commission on the Statute, which met in August in Moscow;

PROPOSES

to the transnational congress of the Radical Party to confirm the fundamental validity of the existing statute, with a few integrations required by the party's new transnational dimension:

PROPOSES

to the Congress to modify the rule that establishes that Congresses are held each year, and to establish its summons every 2 years, and to confirm the direct participation of the members at the Congress;

PROPOSES

to the Congress to establish rules in the statute so as to allow to hold the Congresses in the geopolitical areas of different countries to meet before the congress to develop suggestions for the transnational congress and to define the initiatives thereafter;

PROPOSES

to the Congress to modify the name and the composition of the Federal Council into Transnational General Council, and to establish its composition as follows:

20 members elected by the Congress

30 members elected by the Assembly of Deputies

and by the members elected by the area congresses in the proportions to be decided by the Transnational congress;

PROPOSES

to the congress of the radical party to include the Assembly of Deputies, formed by the Deputies from the various countries, among the statute organs, with the task of developing and promoting radical political initiatives in the various Parliaments; the Assembly is to meet at least once or twice a year; it is to elect a President and a coordination committee and a share of 30 members of the General Council of the Radical Party;

PROPOSES

to the Congress to include in the statute, as part of the executive organs of the Secretary and of the Treasurer, a Secretariat and an executive Treasury consisting of no more than 7 members each, in which one of the members assumes respectively

the functions of vice secretary and vice treasurer, with the task of coordinating the transnational activity.