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CHECHNYA: OPEN LETTER FROM OLIVIER DUPUIS TO ROMANO PRODI
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Strasbourg, 12 February 2004. The Radical MEP Olivier Dupuis, now on the 25th day of his hunger strike "for Chechnya", yesterday sent an open letter to the President of the European Commission, Romano Prodi, in which he illustrates the objectives that the European Union could and - in his opinion - should set itself:
to call on the Russian authorities to allow international organisations, NGOs, journalists and, of course, the institutions of the Union to work and circulate freely in Chechnya;
to guarantee security and dignified living conditions for the hundreds of thousands of Chechen who are living, often in inhuman conditions, in refugee camps both inside and outside the borders of the Russian Federation, without even enjoying the protection of refugee status;
To draw up, on the basis of article 14 of the EU Treaty, a “white list” of Chechen politicians charged with promoting the search for a peaceful and political solution to the Russo-Chechen tragedy, allowing them to reside and travel freely throughout the territory of the Union;
to acknowledge officially that the deportation of the entire Chechen people ordered by Stalin in 1944 constituted an act of genocide;
to acknowledge publicly the Peace Plan presented by the Maskhadov government, which proposes the establishment of an interim United Nations administration in Chechnya.
The open letter concludes with Olivier Dupuis’ offer to meet Mr Prodi in order to illustrate these objectives in more detail.
Together with the letter, Olivier Dupuis also sent the President of the European Commission a copy of the book on the tragedy in Chechnya by the American photographer Stanley Greene.
You can support the Peace Plan presented by the Maskhadov government by signing the appeal on www.radicalparty.org
to call on the Russian authorities to allow international organisations, NGOs, journalists and, of course, the institutions of the Union to work and circulate freely in Chechnya;
to guarantee security and dignified living conditions for the hundreds of thousands of Chechen who are living, often in inhuman conditions, in refugee camps both inside and outside the borders of the Russian Federation, without even enjoying the protection of refugee status;
To draw up, on the basis of article 14 of the EU Treaty, a “white list” of Chechen politicians charged with promoting the search for a peaceful and political solution to the Russo-Chechen tragedy, allowing them to reside and travel freely throughout the territory of the Union;
to acknowledge officially that the deportation of the entire Chechen people ordered by Stalin in 1944 constituted an act of genocide;
to acknowledge publicly the Peace Plan presented by the Maskhadov government, which proposes the establishment of an interim United Nations administration in Chechnya.
The open letter concludes with Olivier Dupuis’ offer to meet Mr Prodi in order to illustrate these objectives in more detail.
Together with the letter, Olivier Dupuis also sent the President of the European Commission a copy of the book on the tragedy in Chechnya by the American photographer Stanley Greene.
You can support the Peace Plan presented by the Maskhadov government by signing the appeal on www.radicalparty.org
