- maintains that the right of every human being not to be killed following a sentence or judicial measure, even when issued in respect of the law, should be affirmed as a fundamental and inviolable individual right in every legal system, with particular reference to those States that are presently in the process of revising their Constitutions;

- asks all parliamentarians and supporters of this Campaign to undertake any useful action with their respective Governments (motions, popular petitions, information offensives) that will commit them to:

1) affirming in their foreign policy and within the sphere of international institutions - and above all at the United Nations - the principle of a State's not having the right to dispose of the life of any of its subjects who have been condemned by a court, even in the case of the most heinous crimes, and to affirm this principle, first and foremost, by obtaining a moratorium on all executions;

2) requesting the UN Security Council to intervene where a "coup d'etat" has taken plqce or where civil war has broken out when these situations constitute a threat to world peace and security, by imposing a moratorium on all executions, and where this moratorium is violated, by imposing all the sanctions provided for in the UN Charter;

3) supporting the project for the setting up of a Permanent Tribunal to prosecute international crimes which, in all cases, will exclude recourse to the death penalty, as has already been decreed in the Statute of the ad hoc Tribunal to prosecute crimes in the Former Yugoslavia;

4) setting in motion the procedure of international dispute, according to Article 41 of the International Pact for Civil and Political Rights, against member States who apply the death penalty in such a way as to violate the restrictions laid down in Article 6 of the Pact (extreme gravity of the crime committed, inapplicability of the death penalty in the case of minors under 18 and pregnant women);

5) systematically raising objections to the reservations made by States which, when ratifying the International Pact for Civil and Political Rights, refuse to accept any or all restrictions on imposing the death penalty provided for therein; also confirming the evolution of International Law which tends to exclude the possibility of making any reservations on human rights' accords;

- asks the elect and the supporters of this Campaign to undertake with every institution the development of political and cultural relations with at least a country that maintains the deathpenalty in order to abolish it by 2000.

- commits its Executive Organs to start the procedure of federation with the Transnational Radical Party and with all abolitionist organizations, in view of our common goals to defend a right to life and a life of rights;


Giandonato Caggiano, Maria Teresa Di Lascia, Gaqo Apostoli, Olivia Ratti, Sergio D'Elia, Paolo Cesari, Vasile Diacon, Samir Labidi