Arab
     Summit
          Resolutions


October 22, 2000

 
  
- Set up 1 billion US dollars fund for Palestinians
 
   - Demand UN tribunal for Israeli "war criminals"
 
   - UN force needed to protect Palestinians
 
   - Consider cutting ties with Israel

 
Excerpts from final declaration of the Arab Summit: 

 
"The pure blood of the martyrs is a precious foundation for the liberation of land, establishment of the state and achievement of peace.
 
"Israeli leaders are unreasonable in dealing with Al-Quds (Jerusalem) ... showing deliberate provocation built on hated racism.
 
"The Arab leaders call on Israel to immediately halt all provocative acts and the policy of repression against Arab citizens. They stress the right of the Palestinian people to demand just compensation from Israel for human and material losses.
 
"The Arab leaders call for the formation of a neutral international investigation committee — within the framework of the United Nations — that will report to the Security Council and the Human Rights Commission on the causes of and the responsibility for the grave deterioration of the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory and the massacres committed by the occupation forces against the Palestinian and the Lebanese peoples.
 
"The U.N. Security Council and the United Nations should take on the responsibility of providing the necessary protection for the Palestinian people living under the Israeli occupation through the formation of a force or international presence. ... The U.N. shoulders permanent responsibility for the land and the Palestinian people until they are able to exercise their inalienable rights in Palestine according to international legitimacy.
 
"The Arab countries, according to international laws, will pursue those who perpetrated the savage practices and call on the Security Council to form an international criminal court especially to try the Israeli war criminals who committed the massacres against the Palestinians.
 
"A just and lasting peace cannot be established if Al-Quds does not return to full Palestinian sovereignty."
 


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