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09/07/2004 | Appeal to Support the Transnational Radical Party in view of the ECOSOC Vote on the Vietnamese Request to Suspend its Consultative Status for three Years |
| Dear friend, As you know, on July 21 the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations will vote on a Vietnamese request to suspend the general consultative status of the Transnational Radical Party for three years. You might also be aware of what the TRP, as an NGO affiliated with the UN, has been able to accomplish since 1995. It ardently supported the creation of the International Criminal Court, a resolution for a universal moratorium on the death penalty, and a variety of antiprohibitionist activities. It has also been an active presence at the UN in Geneva, Vienna and New York, allowing to several oppressed peoples the opportunity to make their voices heard before the United Nations. Indeed, many agree that TRP's contribution has been significant, and that it has had some substantial impact on world affairs, otherwise a regime like Vietnam would not be trying so hard to expel us from the UN system for having fought for religious freedom and for the indigenous rights of the Montagnard people, who have been brutally persecuted by Hanoi for years. Today, like four years ago, when the Russian Federation presented a similar request, we want to show that "common sense" sides with democracy and civil and political rights for everyone. We will counter the Vietnamese request using our political tools. We are working to avoid the worst possible outcome: our expulsion. For this reason, we write to seek your support by In all our campaigns, we were took full advantage of our Consultative Status with the United Nations. In the future, we would like to continue to do so, and for this reason we are committed to obtaining a favourable vote on July 21. Our defeat would represent a defeat for democracy and for the UN system of protecting human rights. We hope you will join us. Sergio Stanzani Danilo Quinto |
