People's Assembly calls on Arab summit to support struggle of Palestinian

The People's Assembly Monday called on the Arab summit, in Beirut due on Wednesday to support the Palestinian intifada an the struggle of the Palestinian people to liberate their land and set up their independent state with al Quds al Sharif as it capital.

The People's Assembly stressed that it is necessary that the Arab summit condemns American's unlimited bias" to Israel in Israel's war against the Palestinian people.

The People's Assembly called to the rejection and condemnation of the American threat to strike Iraq.

The Assembly said that it is necessary to declare full solidarity with Iraq in facing an aggression on it or any foreign interference in Iraq's internal affairs.

Members of the People's Assembly, in a message they addressed Monday to Arab kings, emirs and heads of state on the occasion of the meeting of the Arab summit in Beirut, said they hoped that the Arab summit will crystallize, in its resolutions, its open and clear support to the Palestinian Intifada which embodies the struggle for liberation, removing Zionist occupation and setting up an independent Palestinian State with Jerusalem as its capital.

"This necessitates the dismantling of (Israeli) settlements which have been plated in the West Bank and Gaza since the 1967aggression and to consecrate the right of all Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, restoration of usurped rights and supplying the Palestinian people with all means, political and j materiel, to help them continue their steadfastness'," the People's Assembly said in its message.

Members of the People's Assembly called for the condemnation of the U.S. administration's policy "by name and without hesitation" for its unlimited bias to Israel and its terrorist war against the Palestinian people.

Members of the People's Assembly called on Arab leaders to face "the American planning and threat to commit an aggression on Iraq."

They stressed the necessity of "full national solidarity with Iraq and rejection of any foreign interference in Iraq's internal affairs, the removal of American military bases from Arab countries and to declare, through the summit, refusal that these bases be used in striking Arab targets and to take a decision to lift the blockade imposed on Iraq, at least by Arab countries."

Members of the People's Assembly stressed that all leaders attending the Arab summit should "consecrate, in these critical circumstances, Arab conciliation and cohesion of the Arab nation in the face of challenges of destiny and to settle pending issues among Arab countries, particularly between Iraq and its neighbors, on the bases of right, justice and the common national destiny".