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Full text of OIC foreign ministers statement by Seyed Javad 01 April 2002 14:43 UTC |
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Kuala Lumpur, April 1, IRNA - Full text of a statement issued by the foreign ministers attending the extraordinary session of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) at a meeting here Monday follows: "The ministers closely examined the grave conditions prevailing in the occupied Palestinian territories and reaffirmed all the Islamic resolutions on Palestine, Al-Quds Al-Sharif and the Arab-Israeli conflict. "The conference strongly condemned the recent Israeli storming of Palestinian cities and villages, as well as the headquarters of the Palestinian presidency and endangering the life of President Arafat and members of the Palestinian leadership. "The conference considered this assault a violation of all international norms and laws and the culmination of state terrorism as practiced by Israel. "The conference, while cautioning Israel of the dire consequences of the attack on the Palestinian president, requests the UN Security Council, the two sponsors of the peace process and the European Union to assume their responsibility for immediately stopping the Israeli aggression and withdrawing the Israeli troops from all occupied Arab and Palestinian territories. "The conference, while lauding with great pride the steadfastness of the Palestinian people under the leadership of President Yasser Arafat and paying tribute to its valiant resistance and its blessed intifada, reaffirms the continuing support for the Palestinian People's struggle for the liquidation of the Israeli occupation, the restoration of their inalienable national rights including the right of refugees to return to their homes, the right to self-determination and to establish their sovereign state with Al Quds Al-Sharif as its capital. "The conference, while condemning the state terrorism exercised by Israel and demonstrated by the assassination of Palestinian leaders, citizens, security personnel and policemen, the destruction of the Palestinian National Authority institutions and infrastructures as well as the imposition of the blockade on the Palestinian people and its leadership, requests the international community to take immediate action to stop the Israeli aggression and illegitimate practices, and lift the blockade. "The conference also requests the UN Security Council to take the necessary measures to provide international protection for the Palestinian people and apply deterrent sanctions against Israel. "Israel's terrorist actions and aggressive practices, posing a threat to international peace and security, and dragging the region towards an all-out war, necessitate immediate action by the UN Security Council to apply Chapter VII of the UN Charter. "The conference welcomes the Arab peace initiative taken by the Fourteenth Arab Summit Conference in Beirut, and requests the Security Council to exert pressure on Israel for implementing the initiative in its entirety." The three-day extraordinary session of OIC foreign ministers on terrorism in the Malaysian capital city of Kuala Lumpur will end on April 3, 2002.
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