----- Original Message ----- From: SolidNet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 11:17 PM Subject: CP of Greece, Solidarity Statement with the Palestinian People taken in Athens meeting SolidNet The purpose of the Solid Net ( Solidarity Network ) is to inform on the activities as well as the ideological and political views of different Communist and Workers’ Parties on National and International issues. All articles in the SolidNet are the responsibility of the authors and in no way commit this Web Site. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.solidnet.org ================================================================ CP of Greece, Solidarity Statement with the Palestinian People taken in Athens meeting ------------------------------------------------------------- From: Communist Party of Greece http://www.kke.gr, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================== Solidarity Statement with the Palestinian People taken in Athens meeting We representatives of Communist and Workers’ Parties of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean, the Gulf Region and the Red Sea, meeting in Athens on 16th December 2000 at the fringes of the 16th Congress of the Communist Party of Greece, declare our condemnation to the Israeli bloody aggression on the Palestinian people, and confirm our full support with their legitimate just struggle for independence and national sovereignty and the return of the Palestinian refugees according to the resolutions of the international legitimacy and condemn the American policy that take the side of its strategic ally Israel. We salute the just struggle of the Palestinian people and its heroic steadfastness and great sacrifices in facing the Israeli aggression, and we appeal to all peace-loving and freedom forces all over the world to accelerate their solidarity activities with the Palestinian people to: 1. Stop the Israeli aggression and its bloody crimes and lift the Israeli military, economic sanctions imposed on the Palestinian people. 2. Continue the struggle and pressure on all levels to force the Israeli government to abide to the international legitimacy especially resolutions 242,338,194 and implement them to ensure the complete Israeli withdrawal from all Arab territories in Syria and Lebanon occupied since the 5th of June 1967, and demolish all its settlements and establish the Palestinian independent sovereign State with Eastern Jerusalem as its capital. 3. Provide immediate international Protection to the Palestinian People to ensure their security until their independence. 4. Form international investigation commission to investigate the Israeli occupation, and punish the criminals according to the International Law and Geneva agreement. 5. Demand the UN sponsor to the future negotiations to brake the American monopoly in leading the negotiations, due to the American role in taking bluntly the side of Israel in its aggression. Athens, 16th December 2000 Egyptian Communist Party AKEL of Cyprus Communist Party of Greece Tudeh Party of Iran Iraqi Communist Party Communist Party of Kurdistan-Iraq Communist Party of Israel Jordanian Communist Party Lebanese Communist Party Palestinian People’s Party Communist Party of Sudan Syrian Communist Party Syrian Communist Party
