Rabat Declaration: Cessation of Israeli aggression should pave the way for a fair solution

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The cessation of the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people should serve as a starting point and pave the way for a final and just solution to the Palestinian question, thus enabling the Palestinian people to establish their own independent state, stressed, Tuesday in Rabat, the members of the Executive Committee of the Parliamentary Union of the Member States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (PUIC).

In the Rabat Declaration sanctioning the work of the 52nd meeting of the said Committee, its members condemned the “murderous atrocities perpetrated by the Israeli occupying forces against the Palestinian people, both in the Gaza enclave and in the West Bank.”

They also strongly denounced “the actions of extremist settlers who are systematically destroying property belonging to Palestinian citizens in the West Bank”, calling on the international community, particularly international powers and the United Nations, “to deploy all necessary efforts to obtain an immediate end to the aggression, to lift the blockade imposed on the Palestinian territories, to allow the inhabitants of Gaza to access food and medicine and to ensure international protection for the Palestinian people”.

The members of the PUIC Executive Committee urged in their Declaration the multilateral parliamentary organizations as well as the National Assemblies of the various countries of the world to work to “force the Israeli occupation to put an end to its aggression against the Palestinian people and to proceed without delay to a reciprocal exchange of captives.”

The programme of this two-day meeting, which culminated in the adoption of the Rabat Declaration, included the adoption of the agenda and work programme, and the establishment of the draft agenda of the Standing Specialised Committees and Sub-Committees, in addition to the adoption of the draft agenda of the 26th session of the General Committee of the Union and the 19th session of the PUIC Conference.