Over 25,000 signatures endorsing the petitition promoted by the Radical Party were handed to the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali. The signatures came from all over the world: 22 Nobel Prize winners, 955 MPs of national parliaments, 71 parliamentarians from non-recognized states, 539 representatives of administrative assemblies, 930 personalities of the world of cultire, art, science and sport.

ABSTRACT: List of personalities that sighed the petitition for the ad hoc tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

(1994 - IL QUOTIDIANO RADICALE, 12 November 1993)

International personalities:

Irina Alberti Ilovskaya, editor of "La Pensée Russe"; Francisco Arrabal, playwright; Vladimir Bukovsky, writer, Soviet dissident; Diego Cordovez, former vice U.N. vice secretary, former minister of foreign affaris of Ecuador; Lord Ralf Dahrendorf, rector of St. Antony's College, Oxford; Adem Demaqi, Sacharov Prize for Peace; Lord Desai, director of the centre for the study of a Global Government; Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet; Arne Fjortoft, Secretary-General of the Worldwiew International Foundation; Carlos Franqui, scrittore; Allen Ginsberg, poet; Peter Goldmark, president of the Rockefeller Foundation; Gisele Halimi, jurist, UNESCO councillor; Marek Halter, writer, founder of "Sos Racisme"; Dieter Heinrich, exeprt in the reform of the U.N.; Eugene Ionesco, playwright; Alejandro Jodorowsky, writer, playwright; Ismail Kadarè, writer; Lindsay Kemp, artist; Enes Kisevic, poet and writer; Leszek Kolakowski, philosopher; Bernard Kouchner, former minister for Humanitarian Affairs, France; William Kunstler, jurist;

Kemal Kurspahic, editor of "Oslobodjenje", daily newspaper of Sarajevo; Henri Laborit, scientist; Brice Lalonde, former minister for rhe Environment, France; Bernard Laponche, anti-nuclear militants of the Cousteau Foundation; Predrag Matvejevic, writer; Vincent Mcgee, executive director of the A. Diamond Foundation; Marie Claude Mendes France, general administrator of the Mendes Institute, France; Percy S. Mistry, professor of Economics at Oxford University; Olivier Mongin, editor of "Esprit"; Trevor Mostyn, councillor of the EC foreign affairs commission; Peter Michael Muller, former president of the Iba Commission on penal law; Yuri Orlov, founder of the Helsinki committee; Idrissa Ouedraogo, director; Leonid Pliusch, mathematician, Soviet dissident; Pedro Ramirez J., editor of "El Mundo"; Ibrahim Rugova, president of the republic of Kosovo; Fernando Savater, philosopher; George Soros, financier and philanthropist; Vo Van Ai, president of the Vietnam Commitee for Human Rights; Mario Vargas Llosa, writer

; Manuel Vazquez Montalban, writer, editorialist for "El Pais"; Gore Vidal, writer; Simon Wiesenthal, director of the Documentation Centre on War Crimes; Maurice Williams, president of the International Society for Development

Nobel Prize winners:

Sidney Altman, Chemistry 1989; Oscar Luis Arias Sanchez, Peace 1987; Julius Axelrod, Medicine 1970; Joseph Brodsky, Literature 1987; Stanley Cohen, Medicine 1986; Herbert A. Hauptman, Chemistry 1985; Jean-Marie Lehn, Chemistry 1987; Vassily Leontieff, Economics 1973; Rita Levi Montalcini, Medicine 1986; Mairead Maguire Corrigan, Peace 1976; Nagib Mahfuz, Literature 1988; Czwslaw Milosz, Literature 1980; Franco Modigliani, Economics 1985; Nevill Mott, Physics 1977; George E. Palade, Medicine 1974; Linus Pauling, Chemistry 1954 and Peace 1962; Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Peace 1980; John Charles Polanyi, Chemistry 1986; Ilya Prigogine, Chemistry 1977; Hamilton Smith, Medicine 1978; George Wald, Medicine 1967; Maurice Wilkins, Medicine 1962

Italian personalities

Fernando Aiuti, immunologist; Natalia Aspesi, journalist; Pupi Avati, director; Giuseppe Ayala, magistrate; Pippo Baudo, TV man; Carmelo Bene, actor and playwright; Adolfo Beria d'Argentine, jurist; Achille Bonito Olivo, art critic; Giorgio Bocca, journalist; Massimo Cacciari, philospoher; don Luigi Ciotti, founder of the Gruppo Abele; Furio Colombo, director of the Italian cultural institute, New York; Vincenzo Consolo, writer; Maurizio Costanzo, journalist; Damiano Damiani, director; Ghigo De Chiara, writer; Luigi Di Liegro, president of Caritas Italiana; Umberto Eco, semiologist and essayist; Dario Fo, actor and playwright; Alessandro Galante Garrone, historian and politcal analyst; Vittorio Gassman, actor; Carlo Lizzani, director; Claudio Magris, writer; Luigi Manconi, sociologist; Dacia Maraini, writer; Giacomo Marramao, philosopher; Gianni Minoli, journalist; Domenico Modugno, singer; Indro Montanelli, editor of "Il Giornale"; Antonio Padoa Schioppa; Antonio Papisca, jurist; Gillo Pontecorvo, director;

Sergio Pininfarina, industrialist; Paolo Portoghesi, architect; Franca Rame, actress; Lidia Ravera, writer; Domenico Rea, writer; Fabio Roversi Monaco, rector of the university of Bologna; Salvatore Samperi, regista; Maurizio Scaparro, regista; Enzo Siciliano, writer; Giorgio Strehler, playwrights and director; Elio Toaff, chief rabbi of the Italian Israeli community; Alfredo Todisco, scrittore; Giulio Turcato, painter; Oliviero Toscani, photographer; Victor Uckmar, Paolo Ungari, jurist; Giovanni Valentini, journalist; Florestano Vancini, director; Saverio Vertone, journalist; Antonino Zichichi, nuclear physicist; Sandro Veronesi, writer.