MOZIONE GENERALE
GENERAL MOTION APPROVED BY THE 38TH CONGRESS OF THE TRP
GHENERALA MOCIO.APROBITA DE LA 38a KONGRESO DE TRM
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04/11/2002 | GENERAL MOTION APPROVED BY THE 38TH CONGRESS OF THE TRP |
| The Transnational Radical Party Thanks the Albanian Government and authorities for hosting the Party Conference in Tirana and for their active participation in it. Recalling the General Motion approved at the first session of the 38th Conference, greets the leaders and representatives of the oppressed people who have chosen the Transnational Radical Party with its objective of establishing a World Organisation of Democracy as a fundamental tool useful also in its non-violent battles to affirm human, civil and political rights. Recalling that the preamble to its Charter proclaims the law and the rule of law, also in political terms for the Radical Party, and identifies in their respect the ultimate source of legitimisation of institutions. Reiterating its appeal to the duty of disobedience, non-collaboration, conscientious objection, the supreme forms of non-violent battles to defend life, law and the rule of law. Once again calling upon itself and each individual wishing to hope in life and peace, justice, freedom, strict respect for, and active defence of two fundamental laws such as the Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights, as well as the Constitutions of those states that comply with the principles laid down in the two Charters. Whereas: The coming into force of the Rome Statutes on July 1, 2002 represents the crowning of a political project aimed at setting up the International Criminal Court launched by the TRP and No Peace Without Justice in July 1993 in an international climate of general indifference; its aim was to provide the legal system and the international institutions with legal instruments able to guarantee the enforcement of the relevant provisions on genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The international campaign launched in 1993 by the TRP and Hands Off Cain for a moratorium on capital punishment throughout the world will feature an event of mass mobilisation during next year's UN General Assembly, whose aim is to have the European Union submit and put to vote a UN Resolution calling for this moratorium. For over 50 years the most important international and regional institutions, first and foremost the United Nations, have adopted universal declarations, international treaties and declarations of intent sanctioning human, civil and political rights of all the inhabitants of this planet, rights that are systematically violated by most states. We are witnessing an alarming and systematic erosion of democracy through the violation of the rule of law which is the foundation of real democracies. Believes that: The military interventions that are sometimes necessary to ensure international peace and security, and which may be carried out by individual states, Nato or on the basis of a UN mandate, are no longer suitable for the promotion of democracy and freedom in countries under totalitarian, dictatorial and authoritarian regimes - a need that can no longer be deferred. Real democracies belonging to NATO as of the next NATO summit which will be held in Prague on November 21 - 22, should combine the analysis and development of traditional military strategies and weapons with the choice of promoting democracy as a priority strategic tool to combat and defeat once and for all those who attack international peace and security. A world organisation of democracies should be promoted, having as its immediate political priority the establishment of a World Organisation of Democracy as a tool able to actually enforce international legal provisions on human rights, which, if they continue to remain dead letter, foreshadow new human and humanitarian tragedies for a large part of the inhabitants of this planet. The objective of creating a world organisation of democracies to establish a World Organisation of Democracy is the only tool able to "declare war" on the true causes of armed conflict and terrorism, which led to such extensive bloodshed in the past century and that continue to be the distinctive feature of the beginning of this century: the lack of democracy and freedom for billions of people living under dictatorial and authoritarian regimes; Identifies: the Second Intergovernmental Conference of the Community of Democracies which will be held in Seoul, South Korea, on November 10 - 12 and the concomitant meeting of NGOs as the first international forum where the project for the creation of a World Organisation of Democracies aiming at establishing a World Organisation of Democracy could be submitted. Decides to suggest that the Non Governmental Forum of the Second Conference of the Community of Democracies - and through contacts with government delegations the government forum, too - adopt the following project: 1) The formal establishment of a permanent Secretariat of the Community of Democracies, made up of representatives of the group of the convening countries, having the task of fully enforcing the Warsaw Declaration of 2000, the Action Plan which will be adopted at the Seoul Conference and of working out a project that - through Preparatory Intergovernmental Conferences - may then achieve the objective of convening a Diplomatic Conference leading up to the formal establishment of a World Organisation of Democracy. 2) The formal setting up of "Democracy Caucuses" , i.e. groups of democratic countries, within the United Nations system and other international regional organisations, such as the Council of Europe and the Organisation of American States, building upon what was enshrined in the Warsaw Declaration and the Joint Communiqué of the Foreign Ministers of the convening countries, adopted in September 2000; these caucuses should meet at least 6 times a year to address the issue of the actual enforcement of the Charters establishing these international organisations; 3) In the relevant international fora and in the "Democracy Caucuses", priority should be given to the adoption of respect for human rights and democratic principles, when these states are elected to the bodies of these organisations and when experts are elected within monitoring bodies. 4) Promotion, both within the Commission on Human Rights and within the General Assembly, of resolutions aiming at establishing a Preparatory Committee whose duty is to present proposals for a new segment of international law able to lead to the birth of the World Organisation of Democracy; 5) promotion of UN initiatives that - through resolutions adopted by the General Assembly - recognise the Security Council's remit in situations where the systematic violation of human rights, democracy and the rule of law is considered a threat to peace and international security. |