Democratic Palestine : 26 (ص 21)
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- Democratic Palestine : 26 (ص 21)
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Zayyad, mayor of Nazareth and
member of the Israeli Knesset, who
warned of the dangerous Israeli-US
partnership, as seen in the growing
military capability of Israel. There was
a question and answer period after the
panel statements. Then a statement
condemning the recent Israeli bombing
of the refugee camps in southern
Lebanon was read out.
PALESTINIAN POLITICAL
AND HUMAN RIGHTS
The work of the meeting continued,
focusing on the topic: Palestinian
Political and Human Rights. This panel
included statements by Dr. Hatem Abu
Ghazalah, chairman for the Care of
Handicapped Children in the Gaza
Strip; Dr. Latif Dori, founder and
secretary of the Committee for Israeli-
Palestinian Dialogue; Mr. Amnon
Zichroni, executive director of the
Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian
Peace, and Mrs. Rimonda Al Tawil,
Palestinian writer and journalist.
The panelists focused on the viola-
tions of the Palestinian people’s
political rights and on the miserable
health, educational and social condi-
tions in the occupied territories, due to
the restrictions imposed by the Israeli
military government. They also urged
an end to the Israeli occupation of the
West Bank and Gaza Strip, in order to
pave the way for peace in the Middle
East.
After the panel discussions, four
workshops began on the questions of
mobilizing public opinion, creative arts
and the Palestinian struggle for na-
tional identity, community develop-
ment and relief work, and mobilizing
the international peace movement for a
nuclear weapons-free Middle East.
There was also a special session to
discuss organizational development and
the planned NGO activities for 1987-88.
NGO representatives met to discuss
the report of the International Coor-
dinating Committee for NGOs, to draft
the final declaration and_ special
resolutions and to elect the new coor-
dinating committee. After the elections,
there was a closing ceremony.
FINAL DECLARATION
Below we print some of the main
points of the NGO meeting’s final
declaration:
5. We recognize the need for and the
urgency of convening the International
Peace Conference on the Middle East in
accordance with UN General Assembly
resolutions 38/58 C and 41/43 D. We
are concerned at the delay in convening
the conference and gravely concerned
that any further delay will worsen con-
flict in the Middle East, intensify the
suffering and oppression to which the
Palestinian people are daily subjected
and increase the danger of global con-
flagration.
6. Accordingly, we call on_ all
Governments to work for the conven-
ing of the International Peace Con-
ference under the auspices of the UN,
as a matter of utmost urgency, the par-
ticipants to include the five permanent
members of the Security Council, the
PLO, Israel and all other parties to the
conflict, and other concerned States on
an equal footing and with equal rights.
7. We express our conviction that
one hope for peace lies with a concerted
European initiative to bring Israel and
the United States to accept the interna-
tional peace conference as called for in
resolution 38/58 C. To this end we urge
the NGOs in the EEC countries to per-
suade their Governments to revise the
Venice Declaration of 1980 to be in
conformity with the principles enun-
ciated in resolution 38/58 C.
8. We recognize that the self-
determination of the Palestinian peo-
ple, with all that it implies, is a central
requirement for peace and security, as
well as being fully in accord with one of
the most fundamental principles of the
Charter of the UN. Therefore, we call
on all Governments to recognize that
right.
9. We confirm absolutely the inter-
national consensus that the PLO is the
legitimate representative of the
Palestinian people in their just struggle
for their inalienable rights. According-
ly, we call on all Governments which do
not recognize the PLO to do so.
11. We are greatly concerned at the
discrimination practiced by the Israeli
Government against Palestinians Arab
citizens of Israel. We condemn the
continuing repressive measures of the
Israeli authorities against the Palesti-
nian population in the occupied ter-
ritories (arrests, shootings, torture,
demolition of houses, closure of
educational institutions, and land re-
quisitions), and we call upon. all
Governments and peoples to press the
Israeli Government to end these prac-
tices. Special attention should be paid
to the plight of the often neglected
Palestinian Bedouins.
12. We note with great concern the
situation of the Palestinian camps in
Beirut and in southern Lebanon. In
order to end the blockade of the camps
and to normalize the situation of the
Palestinians in Lebanon, we call for the
establishment of an international fact-
finding delegation of eminent persons
to study the situation in the field and to
report its findings.
13. We urge our Governments to
contact the appropriate parties to lift
the blockade, to permit the immediate
entry of the ICRC into the camps and
the dispatch of medical and food sup-
plies. We also demand the reconstruc-
tion of dwellings and the re-
establishment of social and educational
services.
14. We call for the ending of the
continued Israeli occupation of
southern Lebanon and the intervention
in Lebanese internal affairs through
political coercion and oppressive ac-
tion. We demand the immediate Israeli
withdrawal from southern Lebanon
and for the release of all those held in
prison.
16. We NGOs condemn the _in-
troduction of nuclear weapons by Israel
into the Middle East. We urge the
United States and western European
states to terminate all cooperation with
Israel in the field of nuclear weaponry.
We further call upon Israel to dismantle
its nuclear weapons, to open its nuclear
facilities to expert inspection and to
sign the non-proliferation treaty. The
world has a right to know, the Israeli
people have a right to know about
Israel’s nuclear capacity and the threat
to regional and world peace which that
capacity represents. @
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