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\t<\/span>(c)\t<\/span>To accept the establishment of an independent, sovereign Palestinian State in the Palestinian territories occupied since 4 June 1967 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with East Jerusalem as its capital;<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>3.\t<\/span>Undertakes that the Arab States shall then:<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>(a)\t<\/span>Consider the Arab-Israeli conflict at an end and enter into a peace agreement between them and Israel while achieving security for all the States of the region;<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>(b)\t<\/span>Establish normal relations with Israel in the context of this comprehensive peace;<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>4.\t<\/span>Guarantees the rejection of all forms of Palestinian resettlement, which is incompatible with the special situation in the Arab host countries; <\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>5.\t<\/span>Urges the Government of Israel and all Israelis to accept the foregoing Initiative in order to safeguard the prospects for peace and spare further bloodshed, thus enabling the Arab States and Israel to live side by side in peace and ensuring for generations to come a secure future in which stability and prosperity can prevail;<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>6.\t<\/span>Invites the international community and all its constituent States and organizations to support this Initiative;<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>7.\t<\/span>Requests the Chairman of the summit to form a special committee, to include interested member States and the Secretary-General of the League, to pursue the necessary contacts to gain support for this Initiative at all levels and in particular from the United Nations, the Security Council, the United States of America, the Russian Federation, the Islamic countries and the European Union. <\/p><\/div>\n\n
(Summit resolution 14\/221, adopted on 28 March 2002<\/i>)<\/p><\/div>\n
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Question of Palestine, and recent developments in the Arab-Israeli conflict: <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\n
(a) Subventions to the budget of the Palestinian National Authority and to the Al-Aqsa Fund and the Al-Quds Intifadah Fund<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>The Summit-level Council of the League of Arab States,<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>Having considered:<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>The recommendation made by the Ministerial-level Council of the League of Arab States in its resolution 6153 of 10 March 2002;<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>And the proposal of the Secretary-General of the League,<\/p><\/div>\n\n
Decides<\/strong> :<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>1.\t<\/span>To invite the Arab States to grant the budget of the Palestinian National Authority a subvention in the total amount of 330 million United States dollars, to consist of 55 million dollars a month for six months beginning on 1 April 2002, automatically renewable for a further six-month period in the event that the Israeli aggression should continue and the need of the Palestinian National Authority for the subvention should persist, it being understood that all such sums are to be in the form of non-reimbursable grants, that the required contribution from each member State is to be proportional to its assessed contribution to the budget of the League secretariat, that States that so desire are encouraged to make contributions in excess of their assigned share, and that the contributions of member States are to be paid into a new special account to be opened for this purpose by the secretariat of the League of Arab States;<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>2.\t<\/span>To invite member States to provide a further subvention in the amount of 150 million dollars to be channelled to the Al-Aqsa Fund and the Al-Quds Intifadah Fund and to be allocated to the promotion of development activities in Palestine;<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>3.\t<\/span>To commend the financial support and assistance in kind provided by the governments and peoples of member States to the Palestinian people and the Palestinian National Authority;<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>4.\t<\/span>To urge the Arab peoples to contribute generously to the account to support the tenacity of the Palestinian people (account No. 124448) that the League of Arab States has established at branches of the Arab Bank in order to promote popular participation in supporting the steadfastness of the Palestinian people and its valiant Intifadah.<\/p><\/div>\n\n
(Summit resolution 14\/224 A, adopted on 28 March 2002<\/i>)<\/p><\/div>\n
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Question of Palestine, and recent developments in the Arab-Israeli conflict: <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\n
(b) Support for the Intifadah and steadfastness of the Palestinian people<\/strong> <\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>The Summit-level Council of the League of Arab States,<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>Affirming its enduring support for the Palestinian people and its political leadership in the struggle for legitimate national rights, and declaring its unconditional support for the hallowed Intifadah of the Palestinian people and for its steadfast endurance until such time as it achieves its objectives of freedom, independence and the establishment of an independent State with Jerusalem as its capital,<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>Condemning in the strongest terms the bloody military campaign of repression being carried out by the Government of Israel against the steadfast Palestinian people with the destruction of Palestinian institutions, the reoccupation of towns, villages and camps, the killing and harassment of Palestinian civilians, the detention of hundreds of people and the imposition of a stifling military and economic blockade,<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>Taking account of the recommendations of the Follow-up and Action Committee established at the regular session of the Arab summit conference held in Amman, Jordan, in March 2001,<\/p><\/div>\n\n
Decides<\/strong>:<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>1.\t<\/span>To maintain and augment political and material support to the Palestinian people and its national leadership in their heroic Intifadah and their valiant resistance to the Israeli campaign of repression, terror and harassment and in their legitimate struggle to secure their national right to exercise self-determination and establish an independent Palestinian State that will enable them to live in the same freedom and dignity as other peoples; <\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>2.\t<\/span>To reaffirm that the option of a comprehensive and just peace is the established position of the Arab States, is to be realized through the implementation of the resolutions that embody international legitimacy and requires the Israeli side to espouse the following principles:<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>(a)\t<\/span>Withdrawal of Israeli military forces from all Palestinian and Arab territories occupied in 1967 in accordance with the relevant United Nations resolutions, namely Security Council resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973) and <\/span>425 (1978)<\/a>; and the dismantlement of the existing settlements as unlawful and in violation of the provisions of international law and the Geneva conventions of 1949; <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>(b)\t<\/span>Establishment of an independent Palestinian State with Jerusalem as its capital ;<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>(c)\t<\/span>Recognition of the right of return of the Palestine refugees in accordance with General Assembly resolution 194 (III);<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>3.\t<\/span>To condemn Israel’s violations of the statutes the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, its constant attacks on medical teams and Red Cross and Red Crescent ambulances and its hindrance of these humanitarian agencies in the performance of their duties under international humanitarian law and, specifically, the fourth Geneva Convention of 1949;<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>4.\t<\/span>To hold Israel fully accountable for its aggression and for its actions and their consequences and liable for compensation for the physical and economic losses and damage it has inflicted on Palestinian infrastructure in towns, villages and camps and on establishments of the Palestinian national economy; and to warn against the consequences of its pillage and its persistence in these grievous policies against the Palestinian people, its national institutions and its legitimate leadership;<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>5.\t<\/span>To condemn the State terrorism practised by the Israeli Government and the Israeli military establishment, the killings of civilians, the destruction of the institutions and infrastructure of the Palestinian Authority, and the invasion and reoccupation of Palestinian towns, villages and camps; to urge the international community, and in particular the Security Council and its permanent members, to act immediately to halt Israel’s aggression and its heinous massacres of civilians and to take steps to provide international protection for the Palestinian people under occupation; and to insist on the implementation of the Declaration adopted on 5 December 2001 by the reconvened Conference of the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949;<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>6.\t<\/span>To support the Palestinian people and the Palestinian Authority so as to bolster their steadfastness for as long as the Israeli occupation and aggression of the occupied territories continues;<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>7.\t<\/span>To request the Secretary-General to monitor the implementation of this resolution.<\/p><\/div>\n\n
(Summit resolution 14\/224 B, adopted on 28 March 2002<\/i>)<\/p><\/div>\n
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Question of Palestine, and recent developments in the Arab-Israeli conflict: <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\n
Solidarity with and support for Lebanon<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>The Summit-level Council of the League of Arab States,<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>Recalling the resolutions of the Arab summit conferences and ministerial councils on solidarity with and support for Lebanon,<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>Recalling in particular Amman Arab summit conference resolution 205 of 28 March 2001,<\/p><\/div>\n\n
Decides<\/strong>:<\/p><\/div>\n\n
\t<\/span>1.\t<\/span>To condemn Israel in the strongest terms for its continued occupation of Lebanese territory and of positions along Lebanon’s borders, for its continued detention of Lebanese citizens in its prisons, for its failure to hand over to the United Nations all of the maps showing the locations of the landmines laid by its occupying forces and for its ongoing violations of Lebanese sovereignty on land, at sea and in the air; and to denounce Israeli outrages and threats directed against Lebanon and Syria and regard any aggression against them as aggression against all the Arab States; <\/p><\/div>\n\n