Palestinian groups meet in Damascus, voice commitment to national rights
Syria-Palestine, Politics, 7/19/2000

The representatives of the Palestinian alliance forces in Damascus on Tuesday held a joint news conference, after they concluded a meeting that debated the latest political developments and their grave repercussions on the future of the cause of Palestine and approved a new plan on political and mass action so as to confront those developments inside and outside the occupied Palestinian territories.

At the conference which was held at the office of the Hamas Movement in al-Yarmouk camp, member of the PLO's central committee Abu Fakher read a statement issued by the central leadership of the alliance. The statement called upon the Arab and Muslim peoples and their national forces to support and assist the struggle of the Palestinian people and to protect the Arab nation's central cause of Palestine, stressing that sacred rights and basic issues connected with the destiny of the home and the people are not be sold out or be bargained upon.

The statement criticized the ongoing Camp David negotiations and called on the Palestinian people to cling fast to their just causes of liberation and return back.

It also expressed pride and great appreciation for Syria's commitment and its firm stances in defense of the just and national Arab causes, especially the cause of Palestine.

The participants in the alliance forces meeting replied questions on the current Palestinian conditions and the Camp David talks.

The conference was attended by two members of the Palestinian regional leadership of the Baath party Sami Qindil and Fahran Abu al-Heija, the chairman of the political bureau of the Hamas movement Khaled Mashaal; Abu Mousa who is the secretary of the Palestine national liberation movement, Ahmad Jibril, the secretary of the people's front for the liberation of Palestine- general command, Khaled Abdul Miguid who is the secretary general of the Palestinian people's struggle front, Arabi Awad al-Amin who is the secretary of the revolutionary Palestinian Communist party, Abu Tareq the representative of the Islamic Jihad Movement as well as several representatives for the alliance groups, SANA reported.

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