Meeting of the Arab foreign ministers: we do not accept threats, refuse lists issued concerning resistance
Regional-Palestine, Politics, 12/21/2001

The Arab foreign ministers stressed in their final statement issued by the emergency meeting in Cairo on Thursday their rejection of threats to using force against any Arab state and considered that as an aggression and a violation to the security and stability of the region and as a violation to the UN and the international law principles and charters.

The Arab ministers stressed that Israel's attempt to link between its acts of killing and oppression against the Palestinian people and the incidents of September 11 in the US is a flagrant attempt to mislead the world public opinion and to hide the Israeli terrorist acts and also to deepen the state of caos between the Arabs and America as well as to ultimately violate the ME peace process.

The statements also stressed that the Arab people's boycott of the Israeli products and commodities is a natural result for the continued Israeli policy which is based on occupation, aggression and assassination and practicing international terrorism.

The statement called on the Palestinian people by all its groups and organizations to consolidate national unity in the face of the Israeli schemes aiming at undermining its national unity.

The Arab League (AL) council also stressed the commitment of all Arab states to just and comprehensive peace based on the implementation of the UN security council resolutions 242, 338 and 425 and the UN security Council General Assembly no. 194 and the land for peace principle and noted that the only way to get out of the cycle of violence is the establishment of a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East region on the ground of international legitimacy resolutions, the land for peace formula so as to ensure Israel's withdrawal from all occupied Arab territories until June 4, 1067 border line including Holy Jerusalem and the Golan as well Israel's pull out from parts of South Lebanon that are still under the Israeli occupation and the right of the Palestinian people to self determination and the establishment of their own independent state on their own native soil with Jerusalem as a capital.

The council asked the AL chief, in light of decisions taken at the Cairo summit in October 2000 and at Amman's summit in March 2001 and the decisions of the Arab foreign ministers council concerning the Palestinian question and other occupied Arab territories to coordinate with Arab states concerned including the Palestinian authority and to make necessary contacts with international references in order to protect Arab interests.

As for the Israeli policies against the Palestinian people, the ministers called on the US to take immediate steps and measures in implementation of what proposed of the US secretary of state Colin Powell concerning a general framework for the settlement and the US to play the role of the honest mediator and reconsider its bias to the extremist Israeli policy, manifested in the US use of the veto at the UN security council in favor of Israel. A veto which prevented sending UN observers to ensure protection for the Palestinian people. The Arab ministers consider this bias as a means to encourage Israel to proceed into its aggressive policy and as constituting a defiance to the Arab peoples and feelings.

Earlier in the day, the Arab foreign ministers held a session of consultation. They discussed the grave and continued Israeli aggressions against the Palestinian people and the acts of killing and destruction carried out by the Israeli forces reflecting the terrorist attitude of the Israeli government.

The ministers also discussed the need of taking a united an tangible Arab position "to withstand the Israeli arrogance and intransigence and attain complete Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Arab territories until June 4, 1967 border line, and support for the militant struggle of the Palestinian people to restore back their legitimate rights to establish their own independent state with Jerusalem as a capital."

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