Arab League Chief Urges International Community to Back President Abbas’ Peace Vision
Cairo, MINA – The Secretary-General of Arab League of Arab States, Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, urged on Wednesday the international community to positively react to the vision put forward by President Mahmoud Abbas in his Tuesday speech to the United Nation Security Council (UNSC) to make peace between Palestinians and Israelis, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
In a statement published on the League’s official website, Aboul-Gheit affirmed that President Abbas presented a clear and practical plan to end the conflict and achieve security for the Palestinian and Israeli sides through an international multilateral mechanism to resolve the Palestinian cause stemming from an international conference that is committed to international legitimacy.
He stressed that the Abbas’ vision is rational and reflects on his keenness to the path of negotiations as the only way to end the occupation and establish an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.
The Secretary-General pointed out that President Abbas’ vision was not directed against any party, but was rather meant to hold the international community and its actors responsible for ending this protracted conflict.
Aboul-Gheit added that Abbas’ belief in a two-state solution based on the references of international legitimacy and his insistence on rejecting interim and partial solutions must be supported by all peace lovers and advocate.
On Tuesday, President Abbas proposed a peace plan at the United Nations Security Council that tackles core issues, which have foiled peace efforts over the past few decades.
Abbas said in his highly anticipated speech in front of the UN Security Council that the plan calls for holding an international peace conference in the mid 2018 that is based on international resolutions and with a wide international participation that includes both the Palestinian and Israeli sides as well as the active regional and international parties, similar to the Paris peace conference or the Moscow conference called for based on resolution 1850.
He said the outcomes of the conference must include, the acceptance of the State of Palestine as a full member state at the UN and seeking the security council to achieve that, mutual recognition of statehood between Palestine and Israel on the borders of 1967, the formation of a multilateral international mechanism that aids the two sides in negotiations to solve all permanent status issues according to the Oslo Accords, and the implementation of what is agreed upon within a specified period of time, while providing guarantees for implementation. T/RS5/RS1)
Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)