Rome, January, 3rd, 2007 (3.20 p.m.) - After 183 hours from the beginnig of the nonviolent initiative, the radical leader Marco Pannella stopped the thirst strike, keeping on with the hunger strike. At the beginning, the initiative aimed to obtain from the italian government the commitment for an extraordinary action to avoid the execution of the former iraqi rais Saddam Hussein. The fact of avoiding his execution, would have put Iraq in a process ruled by the standards of the Constitutional State, and would have introduced in the whole Mediterranean area a debate concerning the nonviolence as a proper alternative to the dictatorships and the war. Once again, as happened during the campaign “Free Iraq”, which was offering an alternative proposal to the armed intervention, the international community decided to act in a different way, and the 30th of December 2006 Saddam Hussein was hanged. With him, disappeared all the chances for the kuwaities, kurdishes, and iranians people of putting in act a process for all the criminal acts that they suffered under the regimen, and also disappeard the chance, for everyone, of knowing something about the relationships between Saddam and the western countries. “In this way we give a martyr to the international terrorism” said Pannella right after the execution, and added “and in this way, the accomplice will never talk. And we export in the world incivility and desperate barbarity”. During a press conference, the afternoon of the 30th , Pannella difined the aims of the second phase of his nonviolent initiative, that got to the 88° hour of total hunger and thirst strike: he asks to the whole italian political world, majority and opposition, to committ himself to present to the UN Security Coucil as his first proposal the universal moratorium for the capital executions, also defining its possible procedures: convocation of the extraordinary General Assembly or putting the proposal in the current agenda. In his first working day as a non permanent member of the Security Council, in the afternoon of the 2nd of January, the premier Romano Prodi, informed by the italian President about Pannella's worrying physical conditions, announced that the italian Ambassor at the UN, Marcello Spatafora, presented at the Security Council the proposal of the government concerning the moratorium. During a further phone call between Prodi and Pannella, whose contents were reported to the press agency by the Premier himself, Pannella said that he intend to verify that the proposal maches with the committmets undertaken in public by the government, and requests a copy of the proposal presented to the UN, whose content is unknown also by the Premier, and also requested to be informed about the procedures that the government intends to use to carry out the aims listed in the proposal.