The Honourable Cvitjetin Mijatovic, President
SFR Yugolsavia
The Presidency
Belgrade, Yugslovia

Dear Sir,

The IHEU wishes to register an emphatic protest against the treatment of one of its chairmen, Mihailo Markovic, and six of his fellow-professors at the University of Belgrade.

The institution of suspension and dismissal for political reasons is in contradiction with the international legal obligations of Yugoslavia, by signing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 1975 Helsinki Covenant on Security and co-operation in Europe, and the Covenant of the International Confederation of Labour no. 111.

We feel obliged to bring your decisions and our objections to them to the notice of the intergovernmental organisations concerned, namely the United Nations, UNESCO and the International Labour Organisations.

Letter from N.F.I. Schwarz Co-chairman IHEU, 13.2.81