Wednesday, March 12, the day when the session of the UN Security Council will be most probably held in New York, and the British-American-Spanish draft of the resolution of the Security Council will be tabled, on Pushkinskaya square in Moscow (in Novopushkinsky garden), the demonstration "Free Iraq!" will be organized by the Transnational Radical Party (TRP). The Democratic Union also announced its adhesion to the demonstration.

The demonstration will begin at 18:00, with opening of street tables to collect signatures of citizens under the appeal to the Security Council initiated by Marco Pannella and the TRP: "Iraq: Saddam must go, a democratic government has to be established by the UN". For today, 19 241 persons from 137 countries of the world already signed this appeal through the Internet on the site www.radicalparty.org, among them more than 800 European, national and regional parliamentaries.

At 18:30, a short half-hour rally will begin, Nikolaj Khramov, President of the Coordinating Committee of Russian Radicals, member of the General Council of the TRP, and the leader of the Democratic Union Valeria Novodvorskaya will speak at the rally. Unfortunately, the prefecture of the Central administrative district, under pressure of the Moscow militia, prohibited realization of the rally till 20:00 as it was planned initially, having ordered to finish the demonstration at 19:00.

The point of the extraordinary mobilization undertaken worldwide by the Transnational Radical Party these days and hours, is revealed in the today's statement of the Radical leader Marco Pannella, deputy of the European Parliament from Italy, published on the site www.radicalparty.org:

"Peace can break out instead of war, if governments (even that of Luxembourg, or Italy, for instance) put forward in the coming hours our project "Free Irak", exile and safe conduct to Saddam. The EU Presidency with Mr Papandreu and even Tony Blair would accept it. The blueprint drawn up by the UN General Secretary is very close to our project. At least 10 islamic countries are asking for Saddam's exile. A free and democratic Irak is the only alternative to the imminent war.

But governments, as well as oppositions and pacifists, have to make their choice, now. We appeal to everybody in the 137 countries that have signed our appeal and in other countries to act now in order to gather thousands more online signatures."

The demonstration of Radicals on Pushkinskaya square in Moscow will pass under slogans "No Peace Without Democracy!", "Free Iraq! Down with Saddam!", "UN Administration - to Baghdad!", and under flags of the USA, the Great Britain and the Radical Party (stylized profile of Mahatma Gandhi).

Statement by Nikolaj Khramov:

"As always, as it was already three years ago during the NATO operation in Kosovo which put an end to the genocide of Albanians by the regime of Milosevic, as it was during the operation "Storm in Desert" for liberation of Kuwait seized by Saddam, there are two opposite types of behaviour: there are those who burn American flags, and there are those who raise them.

There are participants of the so-called "anti-war", but in reality the anti-American movement who today come out to the streets demonstrating "for peace" (and in practice, alas - for preservation of the power of the most cruel dictator in the modern history), without being confused by their silence during last twenty years when the Baghdad regime unleashed a long-term war with neighboring Iran, which costed millions lives, when this regime occupied neighboring Kuwait, when it gased Kurds to death and killed hundreds of thousands of its own citizens.

And there are those for whom "peace" means not simply absence of war, but absence of violence, for whom the alternative to war is freedom, democracy and peace. Those who don't sacrifice time after time freedom, democracy, and finally - human lives to pacifism. Those who are inspired by the example of the founder of political nonviolence Mahatma Gandhi who called on his compatriots to enrol in the British army in order to fight against Nazism on fields of battles in Europe and Northern Africa.

We are with the second ones.

Among the first ones are Zyuganov and Anpilov with their noisy groups, Saddam's friend Zhirinovsky, Soviet-style Duma bog (which by right is personified by the speaker Seleznev who desperately, in spite of everything, defends the "Baghdad thief") and, alas, a part of human rights and liberal public which walks shoulder to shoulder with them in one "anti-war" column, and which never forgot caricatures of their Komsomol youth. They forgot nothing and learned nothing. As they didn't learn to find a difference between Kremlin's genocide of the Chechen people which continues for seven years already, and actions of America and Europe in Yugoslavia, which on the contrary stopped the genocide of Albanians.

In the middle - there is the Russian government which didn't determine its position, which is hesitating between the totalitarian past and the democratic future, between European interests of the Gazprom hidden behind the "anti-war" rhetoric in the spirit of the Soviet Peace Committee, and interests of the LUKOIL in the post-war Iraq; between unwillingness to aggravate seriously its relations with America and panic fear of new contours of a possible global order based not on the sacred cow of the "state sovereignty" of milosevics, saddams and other kim chen irs, but on the priority of freedom, democracy and human rights. And in the meantime it is catastrophically losing time to make a courageous and wise step capable to reconcile the British-American-Spanish and the French-German positions and to become the only real alternative to the imminent war: to put forward officially the proposition about safe exile for Saddam.

We come out to the streets of Moscow with American stars and stripes (and with British "Union Jack") not "for war". We come out to protest against the irresponsible and disgusting antiamericanism which is the true motor-force of the majority of today's demonstrations under slogans "for peace". We come out to express our gratitude to that America which in the last century twice saved Europe - for the first time from nazism and fascism (including Germany and Italy), for the second time - from Stalin's tanks on the coast of La Manche; to that America whose victory in the cold war with the Communist empire promoted liberation of our people and other peoples of the former USSR; to that America, at last, which is the only force capable to put an end to the existence of the most furious dictatorship in the modern history and to bring freedom and democracy to Iraqis. We come out to remind of these Iraqi and Kurd men and women, about their rights and about their sufferings which for the last twenty years were never remembered by the "fighters for peace worldwide".

And - the most important - we come out in order to try once again, desperately, with all our strength, to draw attention to the only real alternative to war: to the project "Free Iraq". To call to support this project, this appeal, all those who, including inside the anti-war movement, these days and hours really think of the Iraqi people, and not about the best way to kick America or Bush, to preserve one's religious-pacifistic purity or to observe mercenary interests.

Give peace a chance. We still have some time. See you on Pushkinskaya square!".

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