[L-I] Leaders of the World Peace Council demand release of President Milosevic

Recognizing SLOBODA/Freedom Association as the only organization in Serbia struggling effectively for peace, sovereignty and equality, the Executive Committee of the World Peace Council in the Meeting held in Athens on 16/17 November 2003 decided to admit SLOBODA into full membership of the World Peace Council, one of the oldest and most distinguished non-governmental organizations in the UN system. 

During the same Meeting, leaders of the World Peace Council and of the the national organizations signed the following 

   

P E T I T I O N 
 The illegal trial of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic by the illegal NATO puppet tribunal at The Hague is a tool of warfare against the freedom and stability, mockery of universal judicial and human rights protection principles and an attempted murder

   

            After the popular resistance prevented in 1999 military occupation of Yugoslavia, the aggression against that country continues by other means. Blackmail, bribery and subversion were the tools of the "regime change" in Belgrade in 2000. The crimes committed in the NATO aggression against Yugoslavia are now to obtain a posteriori justification by the kidnapping and inhuman political trial of the democratically elected President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic.

             Approaching its end, the two years lasting presentation of the charges by the prosecution, in spite of numerous manipulations, fabrications and false witnesses, brought no evidence whatsoever. On the contrary, already in the cross-examination of the prosecution witnesses, President Milosevic succeeded to say much about the people's struggle for sovereignty and equality and to present grave charges against the imperialist aggression and colonization of the Balkans, spreading now to many parts of the World.

             Unable to defeat President Milosevic in the courtroom, the modern-time inquisitors attempt to silence him. By the lack of medical care and by the inhuman prison and trial conditions, requiring over-human efforts or making impossible defense preparations, President Slobodan Milosevic (62), with malignant hypertension and damaged heart is in the constant threat of infarct or stroke.

             Therefore:

             We demand immediate release of President Milosevic. 

             We call upon all UN members and all concerned UN bodies to review the evidence of unjust, unfair and political character of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague and its grave violations of human rights, discrediting the World Organization and to act towards its abolishment. 

             We express our solidarity with the people and progressive forces in Serbia and Montenegro in their strive to regain freedom, sovereignty and democracy.

  

Athens, 17 November 2003 

   

Signed by: 

  

Romesh Chandra, President of Honor of the World Peace Council 

Athanasios Pafilis, General Secretary of the Greek Committee for International Detente and Peace, Executive Secretary of the World Peace Council 

Nikos Fotiadis, Vice-President of the Greek Committee for International Detente and Peace 

Orlando Fundora, President of the Cuban Movement for Peace, Vice-President of the World Peace Council 

Arturo Espinosa, Vice-President of the Cuban Movement for Peace 

Manuel Yepe, Secretary of the Cuban Movement for Peace 

Abdelrahman Merie, General Secretary of the Palestinian Council for Justice and Peace, member of the Secretariat of the World Peace Council 

Pham Van-Chuong, Vietnam Peace and Development Foundation 

Ta Quoc Tuan, Vietnam Peace and Development Foundation 

Pallab Sengupta, All India Peace and Solidarity Organization 

Baerbel Schindler-Saefkov, German Peace Council 

Manuel Terrazas, President of the Mexican Peace Council 

Rina Bertaccini, Movement for Peace, Friendship and Solidarity among Peoples (Argentina) 

Stephanos Stephanou, Cyprus Peace Council 

Kim Il Bong, Korean National Peace Council 

Nela Martinez, Peace and Independence (Ecuador) 

Gilberto Calvo, Costa Rican National Peace Council 

D. Okombi, African Commission of the World Peace Council 

Juan Pablo Acosta, Dominican Union of Journalists for Peace 

Emin Cetin, Peace Association (Turkey) 

Pol De Vos, President of the Anti-Imperialist League (Belgium) 

Vladimir Krsljanin, Freedom Association, Serbia 




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