02/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - 145 MEPs of all political groups and Member States of the EU supported the "peace plan of the Mashkadov government, which proposes a temporary UN administration in Chechnya, the withdrawal of all Russian military and civil forces and the disarmament of the Chechnyan resistance", according to a press release. Italian Radicals have been fighting for a plan along these lines for months, and Olivier Dupuis has been on hunger strike since 18 January to make the EU "finally tackle the issue of genocide in Chechnya" (the petition can be signed at http://www.radicalparty.org ).