Doha OIC conference stresses the right of national resistance, Israel's withdrawal from all occupied Arab territories

The emergency meeting of the foreign ministers of the Organization of the Islamic Conference OIC refused to mix between terrorism and the right of the Palestinian people to resist the Israeli occupation, as a right guaranteed by international norms and legislation.

In a statement in Doha on Monday evening in conclusion of its meetings, the conference condemned statements considering the Israeli aggression a self defense. The conference refused the policies of the unlimited support given to Israel.

The conference also condemned the state terrorism conducted by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories and the statement stressed that the current Israeli government threaten peace in the region.

The statement called for lifting the siege imposed on the Palestinian people and withdrawal from the occupied Arab territories until June 4, 1967 line, including Jerusalem, the Golan and parts of South Lebanon that are still under the Israeli occupation.

The conference refused the lists which describes certain Islamic states by terrorism, considering that such lists are illegal, rather obstructs efforts to fight international terrorism.

The conferees approved the proposal made by the 9th OIC summit which states to form a ministerial committee a the ministerial level at the chairmanship of the state of Qatar and the membership of Syria, Mali, Malaysia, Morocco, Oman and Senegal as well as the OIC secretary general in order to hold immediate contacts with UN Security Council permanent member states, the UN Secretary General, the European Union Presidency and the Vatican. This committee will be in charge of following up this urgent issue so as to explain the sufferings of the Palestinian people and the effect of the Israeli aggression on conditions in the region. The committee will be in charge of finding out an Islamic work mechanism to highlight the unity of the Islamic stand and determination to invest all support possible for serving this issue.

The conference also condemned Israel's bombardment of the Palestinian cities, villages and camps and its use of F 16 and Apatchi US- made planes. The conference fully hold Israel responsible for its aggressions and their results being a flagrant violation to human rights in Palestine and to all international norms and charters especially the fourth Geneva agreement of 1949.

The conference strongly condemned Israel's use of power in all its forms and warned Israel from continuing such policies against the Palestinians. It also warned against Israel's attempts to undermine the Palestinian national unity, noting that the Israeli overall policies aim at destabilizing the ME region as a whole.

The conference commended the steadfastness of the Palestinian people and their uprising in confrontation of the Israeli occupation in order to attain their legitimate rights, voicing continued material and morale support to them.

The conference called in its statement the UN security council, in its being as the international body, in charge basically of keeping world peace and security to shoulder its responsibilities to immediately halt the Israeli aggression.

The statement also called on Israel to halt political assassination crimes, collective massacres and the oppressive measures against the Palestinian people as a flagrant violation to the international law. It called on Israel to eliminate and halt settlements in the occupied Arab territories being a violation to international legitimacy resolutions which considered the settlements as illegal, according to UN resolution 465.

The conference was opened on Monday earlier in the day with the participation of 32 Arab and Muslim states.