1988. augusztus (184-207. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
i , MARIAN 9 ^ J I_j1\_J r C$) I ii í i y.i.. t? □ (' jí /1 ©lludwMjL Editor! György Krassó » 24/D Little Russell Street * London. WC1A 2HN * Tel. 01-430 2126 (írom abroad 441-430 2126) 202/1988 (E) 28th August, 1988 International Humán Rinhts Conference in áraków On August 25th-27th the Polish Freedom and Peace organisation and Solidarity’s National Legal Defense Cominittee organised a big intemational humán rights confer- ence in iíraków, The conference dealt with the relation between the state and the cit- izens, questions of nation and national existence, the right to strike, the East European peace movement and national minority rights. Among those present, of which there were more than 700, were four European Parliament M.P.s, three delegates from the American Senate, intemational humán rights organisations such as colleagues from the Helsinki Watch Committee and members of East European independent groupings. The plenary meeting and working group sessions were held in the Nowa Huta Maximillian Kőibe church. Greetings were sent to the conference from Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. The twelve inember Hungárián delegation took an active part in the meeting. Iván Baba spoke about the situation of the Hungárián national minorities, László Vit about environmental damage, Zsuzsa Szelényi and her two fellow delegates about the Young Democrats Alliance, József Merza of the situation of conscientious objectors in Hungary, Tibor Philipp about generál humán rights matters and Sándor Szilágyi about the activity of the Free Románia group which operates in Hungary. György Gadó stressed the necessity of unity of action between East European countries and the drafting of a common strategy. Géza Buda held an exhibition of Hungárián publications, badges and leaflets in the church. The Hungárián participants submitted the "SOS Transylvania" announcement and an account of the destruction of Románián villages. These became the documents of the conference and a declaration by Germán speaking Románián refugees defaming the Ceau^escu régimé became its resolution. Delegates from independent Hungárián movements met with well-known figures of the Polish opposition, including Kuron and Lipski, and discussed the possible forms of further co-operation. A letter from the Caretaker Committee of the Scientific Workers Democratic Union provoked great excitement. It said that the Union which is the first independent unión in Hungary fór forty years follows and supports Solidarity’s struggle to be acknowledged with sympathy. It believes that they share the same basic principles and aims because of the conviction that fundamental humán rights such as freedom of speech and the right to assemble and unité are provisos fór a humán existence in East Europe. Participants in the Kraków meeting adopted many resolutions winch include a condernnation of the destruction of Románián villages; the forming of a Peace Parliament dealing with humán rights, a proposal that was first made at the Prague Peace Seminar in May. The delegates wrote a letter to. the generál secratarji of the U.N., to the governments of the U.N. member states and to intemational organisations stressing the importance of guaranteeing humán rights. On August 28th the participants visited Auschwitz-Birkenau to pay their respects. They decided to hold similar common East European conferences every two years. áí Subscribprs can use or quotf the Hungárián Octobcr newsletters in totál or in detail <n long .11 the source is acknowledged.
