Sharm el-Sheikh Summit calls for UN resolutions implementation
Regional, Politics, 5/13/2002

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Prince Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz, the Saudi Crown Prince and Syrian President Bashar Al Assad wound up their tripartite summit in Sharm El Sheikh last night. In a statement following the meeting, the three Arab leaders underlined the necessity of implementing resolutions of the UN Security Council and General Assembly on the dispatch of a fact-finding panel on war crimes perpetrated by Israeli occupation forces in Jenin.

In a joint statement at the conclusion of their summit late Saturday, the three leaders stressed the need to continue to work on enhancing Arab solidarity in all fields to preserve Arab security on the basis of safeguarding the supreme interests of the Arab and Islamic nation.

The leaders tackled the regional and international situation, especially the grave situation in the occupied Palestinian lands and its repercussion on world and regional security.

They also discussed the US position as regards the latest developments in the region and the current events in the occupied Palestinian lands in light of Prince Abdullah's briefing on the outcome of his key visit to the US and his talks with US President George Bush and his administration's senior officials.

The three leaders underlined that the Arab peace initiative, approved by Beirut Summit, is the basis for any Arab action to realize the aspired-for just and comprehensive peace within the framework of international legitimacy, reaffirmed a genuine Arab interest in peace and voiced rejection of all forms of violence.

The leaders saluted the Palestinian people's stamina, hailed the heroic Intifada in face of the Israeli occupation forces and war machine and condemned the massacres perpetrated by the Israeli occupation against children, women and elders, condemning specifically what Israel did in Jenin without any humanitarian or legal deterrents.

The Arab leaders stressed the importance of implementing the resolutions of the UN Security Council and General Assembly related to sending a fact-finding committee to investigate Israeli war crimes in Jenin. They also called for cementing Arab solidarity in all domains with a view to safeguarding Arab security out of preserving supreme interests of Arab and Islamic Nations and believing in the principles and objectives of the charter of the Arab League.

The three Arab leaders called on "peace-loving countries" to back the Arab rights endorsed by all international legislations and to put pressure on Israel to withdraw from all occupied Arab lands to bring in a fair and durable peace in the region.

President Mubarak, President al-Assad and Crown Prince Abdullah agreed on continuing contacts and consultations.

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