Palestinian ten opposition groups rallied against Wye accord
A meeting was held in Damascus on Sunday comprising the ten Palestinian groups opposing the Oslo and Wye plantation agreements, as well as several Palestinian figures and activists.
The meeting was made at the invitation of the chairman of the Palestinian National Salvation Front Khaled al-Fahoum. Al-Fahoum read the "national declaration" of the Palestinian people, the Arab nation and the international legitimacy which stressed that "balanced peace requires the implementation of UN resolutions which provide for guaranteeing the rights of the Palestinian people to self determination, the establishment of their own independent state with Jerusalem as its capital and the rights of the refugees to return home in accordance with international legitimacy resolutions."
The declaration added that the Oslo accord, the Hebron protocol and Wye Plantation agreement had ignored UN resolutions and basics of just and comprehensive peace. The declaration condemned "the oppressive agreements, especially Wye plantation accord which has left 80% of the Palestinian lands under occupation and laid humiliating conditions to oppress our people all their national forces under the supervision of the CIA."
The declaration rejected abrogation of the Palestinian people and the political frame for the coalition of its groups, forces and national figures. It called upon the Palestinian people to reject the abrogation of the National Charter in "protection of the national rights of the Palestinian people." It called for electing the Palestinian National Council in Palestine and the Diaspora through electing an executive committee, and the Palestinian Central Council, so as to represent the Palestinian people.
The declaration called for reconstructing the PLO and its unionist institutions, according to the Palestinian national charter which states that the PLO is a broad national front for the Palestinian people.
They called for a referandum in the homeland and the Diaspora on the Oslo and Wye Plantation agreement. They called for bringing back the cause of Palestine and the question of the Arab-Israeli conflict to the UN and under the patronage of the five permenant members of the UN Security Council.
The participants discussed "the risk confronting the Palestinian question as a result of Zionist racism and the agreements signed with Israel formost being the Wye Pantation and its consequences on the Palestinian and Arab nation question."
In a press statement at the conclusion of the meeting, Khalid al-Fahoum condemned "the repressive agreements and denounced the acts of repression carried by the Palestinian Authority against Palestinian patriots."
The Palestinian general secretaries and group representatives who took part in the meeting are: the Organization of the People's Liberation War Vanguards " al-Saeqa forces; Popular front for the liberation of Palestine - General command; the Palestinian national liberation movement Fatah; the People's front for the liberation of Palestine; the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, Hamas movement; the Palestinian people's Party, revolutionary; the Democratic front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian liberation front. Representative of the PLO office in Damascus attended the meeting.