QNA/Gaza
The Palestinian issue is the struggle of right against falsehood, HE the Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Khalid bin Mohamed al-Attiyah has said.
In a speech broadcast yesterday at the First International Scientific Conference of the Faculty of Rabat University in Gaza on the topic Palestine: Reasons of Occupation and Victory Factors, the Foreign Minister said that the continued Israeli occupation has moral, humanitarian and political repercussions on the whole world, and reveals Israel’s defiance of the will of the international community.
Al-Attiyah said that the ending of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories is a collective responsibility of the international community, adding that: “This issue has now exceeded more than 65 years which were filled with grief and displacement of the Palestinian people, who have suffered the ravages of brutal Israeli aggression and illegal practices through continuing settlement activities, house demolitions, the destruction of infrastructure, prevention of reconstruction as well as the suffocating and unjust siege of the Gaza Strip”.
The Foreign Minister said that the Palestinian issue had passed through several stages which revealed the international community’s failure to win the right, adding, “We are experiencing international legitimacy crisis and double standards”.
He said the issue was occupation of land and then it became the issue of the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem and then roadmaps, then without maps and aggression and blockade on the Gaza, and negotiations went on for more than two decades without a final solution to the occupation, a matter which reflects a tremendous inability of the international community and the arrogance of Israel that prevent the achievement of peace and ending the occupation”, the Foreign Minister said.
HE al-Attiyah said that the absence of international community’s efforts for ending the Israeli occupation were clear in the past where it tended to settle the dispute over interim and transitional adjustments. “But despite all contradictions of the current scene, the future would be for peace as history has taught that the forces of aggression would vanish,” he added.
The Foreign Minister stressed the need for joint Arab action to put pressure on the international community to force Israel to end the occupation of the Palestinian territories, based on clear determinants in specific time frames according to the principle of two-state solution agreed upon by the international community.
He stressed that the peace process should not start from scratch, but from the international legitimacy including resolutions of the Madrid 1991, the Arab Peace Initiative 2002 and the relevant resolutions of international legitimacy in the light of the principle of two-state solution.
The Foreign Minister reiterated Qatar’s firm support for the Palestinian people in order to achieve all their legitimate rights and establish their independent state on the borders of June 1967 with East Jerusalem as its capital.
He called on all Palestinian parties to implement agreements of reconciliation, which were concluded in Doha and Cairo to unify the Palestinian ranks to achieve the aspirations of the Palestinian people in their freedom and independence.