>================================================================ > 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 Peoples Party >Communist Party of Sudan >Syrian Communist Party >Syrian Communist Party > > >