Democratic Palestine : 35 (ص 36)
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for elections under occupation, and
hindering the efforts to convene an in-
ternational peace conference.
WORKSHOPS
Six workshops were originally
scheduled and a seventh was added, to
discuss the following topics: protection
of the Palestinian population, the role
of NGO assistance in meeting the
future economic development,
mobilization for the release of Palesti-
nian prisoners and potential deportees,
mobilization of international support
for Palestinian education and cultural
institutions, building support for an
independent Palestinian state with the
Jewish communities and Israelis, the
promotion of the peace process and the
role of the mass media. The seventh
workshop, which was added, was on
the right of return for Palestinians who
have been uprooted and expelled from
Palestine since 1948.
FINAL DECLARATION
The final declaration of the interna-
tional NGO meeting expressed support
to the continuing struggle for freedom
and independence, and the inalienable
rights of the Palestinian people, in-
cluding the right of return. It upheld
The following statement was circulated in the Vienna meeting by the
Abna A] Balad Movement, and signed by scores of democratic Israeli
groups, Palestinian organizations and solidarity and peace commit- |
tees from a number of countries.
The uncompromising sacrifice of the
Palestinian people living under the 1967
occupation has put the Palestinian
question and its just solution back at
the top of the regional and interna-
tional political and diplomatic agendas.
It has broken the false consensus which
Zionism has created as to the future
direction of the Palestinian struggle.
The international community is being
forced to recognize that there will only
be a solution when the Palestinian
people achieve their inalienable rights
to return and to self-determination and
to an independent state on Palestinian
soil with Jerusalem as its capital under
the leadership of the PLO.
On the basis of the unity of the
Palestinian people we identify these
three fundamental elements:
1) The Right of Return
Half of the Palestinian people are
refugees. Their right to return is fun-
damental and must form a cornerstone
of any resolution to the conflict.
2) Palestinians in Israel
Given that Israel is officially proclaim-
ed as a Jewish state; and given the of-
ficial denial by Israel of the national
rights of the Palestinians in Israel; and
given the official racist policies against
inside Israel as in integral part of the
Palestinian people for their national,
civil and democratic rights must be §
recognized.
3) End of Occupation
The immediate withdrawal of all Israeli
forces from the 1967 occupied ter-
ritories, including East Jerusalem, is a
precondition for the establishment of
an independent state, for the achieve-
ment of the rights of the Palestinians
inside Israel and for the return of the |
refugees and deportees.
The efforts of the PLO and all pro-
grssive and democratic forces to
achieve the International Conference.
on the Middle Bast under UN auspices §
with the participation of all parties to
the conflict including the PLO on an
equal footing and with the participation |
of the five permanent members of the
UN Security Council to achieve the
fundamental aims of the Palestinian
people deserve utmost support at all
levels: regional, national and interna- |
tional.
The Intifada has made new initiatives
possible; the strengthening and rein- |
forcing of the Intifada is a paramount —
duty of all who support the Palestinian —
people.
the proclamation of the independent
State of Palestine, and called on all
member states of the UN who have not
yet recognized the State of Palestine, to
do so «in unequivocal terms and
without delay.»
The declaration renewed the call for
an international peace conference on
the Middle East with the participation
of the five permanent members of the
UN Security Council and all parties to
the conflict, in order to achieve «a just,
comprehensive, peaceful and perma-
nent settlement.» Reaffirming recogni-
tion of the PLO as the sole legitimate
representative of the Palestinian peo-
ple, it urged all governments to do the
same.
The declaration rejected the
«spurious plan for so-called elections
put forward by the prime minister and
government of Israel, and whose prin-
cipal international advocate is the
government of the United States.» It
labeled this plan the «opposite of
democracy» designed to prevent
Palestinian independence, and called
for Israeli withdrawal from the
Palestinian territories occupied in 1967,
in order for free elections to take place.
The declaration condemned the
numerous acts of Israeli repression and
appealed to the Security Council to
establish a UN presence in the occupied
territories to protect the Palestinian
people and «bring the perpetrators of
these practices to justice.» It also con-
demned Israel’s attempt to destroy the
Palestinian society by depriving
children of an education, calling on in-
ternational educational and cultural
institutions to pressure Israel to reopen
all educational institutions in the oc-
cupied territories.
Israel’s introduction of nuclear
weapons into the Middle East was
deplored in the final statement, and
Israel was called on to sign the treaty on
non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.
Finally, the declaration requested the
chairman of the Committee on the Ex-
ercise of the Inalienable Rights of the
Palestinian People to convey the
declaration to the 44th session of the
them, the struggle of the Palestinians eo
aS ee . somes) UN General Assembly. e@
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