Democratic Palestine : 29 (ص 23)

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Democratic Palestine : 29 (ص 23)

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The PLO should confront these aims
with a clear, firm position.
On the Palestinian level, the PLO
leadership is called upon to seriously
discuss the convening of the PNC in the
coming period. This for several
reasons: First, the PNC’s internal rules
and regulations specify that it should
convene annually, and it has been more
PFLP Press Conference
On April 27th, Comrade George Habash, General Secretary of the
PFLP, held a press conference in Damascus, right after the beginn-
ing of the reconciliation between the Syrian government and the
Fatah Central Committee. A number of other current topics were
addressed as well.
1. OUR DUTIES TOWARDS
THE UPRISING
In this uprising that has now been
going on for four months, our masses
are expressing, by all means at their
disposal, their determination to achieve
the national goals of freedom and in-
dependence, specifically an indepen-
dent Palestinian state.
Concerning the position of the enemy
camp, ‘Israel’ is still insisting on trying
to suppress the uprising, using all
methods: administrative detention,
imprisonment, curfews, the breaking of
bones, burying people alive, economic
sanctions, deportation and others. The
US administration, on the other hand,
claims that it is seeking a solution, but
still it ignores the PLO and the
legitimate rights of the Palestinian
people. The Arab puppet regimes, par-
ticularly in Egypt and Jordan, are try-
ing to market the US initiative by con-
vincing the PLO to consent to the US
plan without itself really participating,
and without mention of the Palestinian
people’s national rights.
In the light of all this, the PLO
leadership should take a clear, decisive
political stand that would contribute to
continuation of the uprising and pre-
vent its being aborted. The PLO
leadership should not take any position
that would elicit confusion in the ranks
of the Palestinian people. The PLO
should aim first and foremost at ending
the occupation. To this end, interna-
tional forces should enter the West
Bank and Gaza Strip, as part of
preparations for a fully empowered in-
ternational conference that would
fulfill the national rights of the
Palestinian people to repatriation, self-
determination and an_ independent
Palestinian state.
Just like his other visits, the fourth
trip of Schultz to the area aims at
creating confusion among the Palesti-
nian people, and foiling the uprising.
than a year since the last PNC in
Algiers. Second, the convening of the
PNC would consolidate Palestinian
national unity, by giving those
organizations that are now outside the
PLO the chance to reenter. Third, and
most important, the convening of the
PNC would give a serious opportunity
for reforming and revolutionizing the
PLO’s condition, so that it becomes the
real instrument for mobilizing all the
Palestinian masses. In this way, the
PLO could function at the same level as
the uprising, and meet its requirements.
The most appropriate place to con-
vene the PNC is Damascus, but the
issue of time and place is usually
decided by the PLO’s leading bodies,
specifically the Executive Committee
and the PNC Presidium, in addition to
the general secretaries of the Palesti-
nian resistance organizations.
After Yasir Arafat met with Syrian
President Assad, the Palestinian
leadership met to discuss the steps to be
taken to reopen the inter-Palestinian
dialogue (aimed at the remaining
Palestinian organizations rejoining the
PLO). The Palestinian leadership will
initiate a meeting with Al Saiqa,
PFLP—General Command and _ the
Popular Struggle Front. Second, a PLO
delegation will meet with a delegation
of these organizations. I call attention
to the fact that the PLO had previously
formed a committee, headed by the
martyr Abu Jihad, to follow up the
issue of all organizations that did not
attend the last PNC rejoining the PLO.
(This committee is now headed by PLO
Executive Committee member Farouk
Qaddoumi.)
2.PALESTINIAN—SYRIAN
RELATIONS
The PLO, Syria and all the Arab na-
tionalist forces, regimes and
movements should notice the reaction
of the enemy camp to the Palestinian-
Syrian reconciliation. This is not a
minor event; rather it is the first step in
rehabilitating the Arab chain of sup-
port to our masses in the occupied ter-
ritories and the uprising. Both the J or->
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