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FULL TEXT OF THE NATIONAL CONCILIATION DOCUMENT OF THE
PRISONERS
May 11, 2006
In the name of God, the Compassionate and the Merciful,
"Abide by the decree of God and never disperse" (a
verse from the Holy Quran)
Based on the high sense of national and historical
responsibility and due to the dangers facing our people and for the sake of
reinforcing and consolidating the Palestinian internal front and protection of
national unity and the unity of our people in the homeland and in the Diaspora,
and in order to confront the Israeli scheme that aims to impose the Israeli
solution which blows up the dream of our people and the right of our people in
establishing their independent Palestinian state with full sovereignty; this
scheme that the Israeli government intends to implement in the next phase as
establishment of the erection and completion of the apartheid wall and the
Judaization of Jerusalem and the expansion of the Israeli settlements and the
seizure of the Jordan Valley and the annexation of vast areas of the West Bank
and blocking the path in front of our people to exercise their right of return.
In order to maintain the accomplishments of our people
achieved in long struggle path and in loyalty to the martyrs of our great
people and the pains of their prisoners and the agony of their injured, and
based on the fact that we are still passing through a liberation phase with
nationalism and democracy as the basic features, and this imposes a political struggle
strategy that meets with these features and in order to make the Palestinian
comprehensive national dialogue succeed, and based on the Cairo Declaration and
the urgent need for unity and solidarity, we present this document (the
national conciliation document) to our great steadfast people and to President
Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and to the PLO Leadership and to the PM Ismail Hanieh
and to the Council of Ministers and to the Speaker of the PNC and to the
members of the PNC and to the Speaker and members of the PLC and to all
Palestinian forces and factions and to all nongovernmental and popular
organizations and institutions and to leadership of Palestinian public opinion
in the homeland and in the Diaspora.
Hoping to consider this document as one whole package and
with the hope to see this document get the support and approval of everybody
and that it can contribute to reach a Palestinian national conciliation
document.
1. The Palestinian people in the homeland and in the
Diaspora seek to liberate their land and to achieve their right in freedom, return
and independence and to exercise their right in self determination, including
the right to establish their independent state with al-Quds al-Shareef [Jerusalem]
as its capital on all territories occupied in 1967 and to secure the right of
return for the refugees and to liberate all prisoners and detainees based on
the historical right of our people on the land of the fathers and grandfathers
and based on the UN Charter and the international law and international
legitimacy.
2. To work quickly on achieving what has been agreed upon in
Cairo in March 2005 pertaining to the development and activation of the PLO and
the joining of Hamas and Islamic Jihad Movements to the PLO which is the
legitimate and sole representative of the Palestinian people wherever they are
located and in a manner that meets with changes on the Palestinian arena
according to democratic principles and to consolidate the fact that the PLO is
the legitimate and sole representative of the Palestinian people in a manner
that reinforces the capacity of the PLO to assume its responsibilities in
leading our people in the homeland and in the Diaspora and in mobilizing the
people and in defending their national, political and humanitarian rights in
the various fora and circles and in the international and regional arenas and
based on the fact that the national interest stipulates the formation of a new
Palestinian National Council before the end of 2006 in a manner that secures
the representation of all Palestinian national and Islamic forces, factions and
parties and all concentrations of our people everywhere and the various sectors
and the figures on proportional basis in representation and presence and
struggle and political, social and popular effectiveness and to maintain the
PLO as a broad front and framework and a comprehensive national coalition and a
gathering framework for all the Palestinians in the homeland and in the
Diaspora and to be the higher political reference.
3. The right of the Palestinian people in resistance and
clinging to the option of resistance with the various means and focusing the
resistance in the occupied territories of 1967 alongside with the political
action and negotiations and diplomatic action and continuation of popular and
mass resistance against the occupation in its various forms and policies and
making sure there is broad participation by all sectors and masses in the
popular resistance.
4. To set up a Palestinian plan towards comprehensive
political action and to unify the Palestinian political rhetoric on the basis
of the Palestinian national consensus program and Arab legitimacy and the
international legitimacy resolutions that grant justice to the Palestinian
people who are represented by the PLO and the PNA as president and government, and
the national and Islamic factions and the civil society organizations and the
public figures in order to mobilize Arab, Islamic and international political
and financial and economic and humanitarian support and solidarity to our
people and to our PNA and to support the right of our people in self
determination and freedom and return and independence and to confront the plan
of Israel in imposing the Israeli solution on our people and to confront the
oppressive siege on the Palestinian people.
5. To protect and reinforce the PNA since it is the nucleus
of the future state; this PNA which was established by the struggle and
sacrifices, blood and pain of the Palestinian people and to stress on the fact
the higher national interests stipulates respecting the temporary constitution
of the PNA and the effective laws and respecting the responsibilities and
authorities of the president elected according to the will of the
Palestinian people through free, honest and democratic
elections and to respect the responsibilities and authorities of the government
that was granted the confidence vote by the PLC.
And the importance and the need for creative cooperation
between the presidency and the government and joint work and hold regular
meetings between them to settle any disputes that might arise through brotherly
dialogue based on the temporary constitution and for the sake of the higher
interests and the need to hold a comprehensive reform in the PNA institutions, especially
the judicial apparatus and the respect of the judiciary authority at all levels
and to implement its decisions and to reinforce the rule of the law.
6. To form a national unity government on a basis that
secures the participation of all parliament blocs, especially Fatah and Hamas
and the political forces that desire to participate on the basis of this
document and the joint program to upgrade the Palestinian situation at the
local, Arab, regional and international levels and to confront the challenges
through having a strong national government that enjoys Palestinian popular and
political support from all forces and to present the best possible care for the
sectors that carried the burden of steadfastness and resistance and the
Intifada and who were the victims of the Israeli criminal aggression, especially
the families of the martyrs, prisoners and injured and the owners of the
demolished homes and properties which were destroyed by the occupation, in
addition to the care to the unemployed and the graduates.
7. Administration of the negotiations is the jurisdiction of
the PLO and the President of the PNA on the basis of clinging to the
Palestinian national goals and to achieve these goals on condition that any
final agreement must be presented to the new PNC for ratification or to hold a
general referendum wherever it is possible.
8. To liberate the prisoners and detainees is a sacred
national duty that must be assumed by all Palestinian national and Islamic
forces and factions and the PLO and the PNA as President and government and the
PLC and all resistance forces.
9. The need to double efforts to support and care for the
refugees and defend their rights and work on holding a popular conference
representing the refugees which should come up with commissions to follow up
its duties and to stress on the right of return and to cling to this right and
to call on the international community to implement Resolution 194 which
stipulates the right of the refugees to return and to be compensated.
10. To work on forming a unified resistance front under the
name "Palestinian resistance front" to lead and engage in resistance
against the occupation and to unify and coordinate action and resistance and to
form a unified political reference for the front.
11. To cling to the democratic trend and to hold regular
general free and honest and democratic elections according to the law for the
president and the PLC and the local and municipal councils and to respect the
principle of peaceful and smooth transfer of authority and to promise to
protect the Palestinian democratic experience and respect the democratic choice
and its results and respect the rule of the law and the public and basic
freedoms and freedom of the press and equality among the citizens in rights and
duties without any discrimination and to protect the achievements of women and
develop and reinforce them.
12. To reject and denounce the oppressive siege against the
Palestinian people which is being led by the US and Israel and call on the
Arabs at the popular and official levels to support the Palestinian people and
the PLO and the PNA and to call on the Arab governments to implement the
political, financial, economic, and media decisions of the Arab summits that
support the Palestinian people and their steadfastness and their national cause
and to stress that the PNA is committed to the Arab consensus and to joint Arab
action.
13. To call on the Palestinian people for unity and
solidarity and unifying the ranks and support the PLO and the PNA as president
and government and to reinforce steadfastness and resistance in face of the
aggression and siege and to reject intervention in the Palestinian internal
affairs.
14. To denounce all forms of split that can lead to internal
conflicts and to condemn the use of weapons regardless of the reasons in
settling internal disputes and to ban the use of weapons among the members of
the Palestinian people and to stress on the sanctity of the Palestinian blood
and to abide by dialogue as the sole means to solve disagreements and freedom
of expression through all media, including the opposition to the authority and
its decisions on the basis of the law and the right of peaceful protest and to
organize marches and demonstrations and sit ins on condition that they be
peaceful and without any arms and not to attack the properties of citizens and
public property.
15. The national interest stipulates the need to look for
the best means towards the continuation of participation of the Palestinian
people and their political forces in the Gaza Strip in their new situation in
the battle for freedom, return and independence and to liberate the West Bank
and Jerusalem in a manner that makes the steadfast Gaza Strip a real support
force to steadfastness and resistance of our people in the West Bank and
Jerusalem as the national interest stipulates reassessing the struggle methods
to seek the best methods to resist occupation.
16. The need to reform the develop the Palestinian security
institution with all its branches on a modern basis and in a manner that makes
them capable of assuming their tasks in defending the homeland and the citizens
and in confronting the aggression and the occupation and to maintain security
and public order and implement the laws and end the state of chaos and security
chaos and end the forms of public armed presence and parades and confiscation
of the chaotic weapons that harm the resistance and distort its image and that
threaten the unity of the Palestinian society and the need to coordinate and
organize the relation with the forces of resistance and organize and protect
their weapons.
17. To call on the PLC to continue to issue laws that
organize the work of the security institution and apparatuses with their
various branches and work on issuing a law that bans exercise of political and
partisan action by the members of the security services and to abide by the
elected political reference as defined by the law.
18. To work on expanding the role and presence of the
international solidarity committees and the peace loving groups that support
our people in their just struggle against the occupation, settlements, the
apartheid wall politically and locally and to work towards the implementation
of the International Court of Justice decision at The Hague pertaining to the
removal of the wall and settlements and their illegitimate presence.
Signed by:
Fatah: PLC member Marwan Barghouthi, Fatah Secretary.
Hamas: Sheikh Abdul Khaleq al-Natsheh, Higher Leading
Commission
Islamic Jihad: Sheikh Bassam al-Sa'di
PFLP: Abdul Rahim Mallouh, member of PLO Executive Committee
and Deputy General Secretary of the PFLP
DFLP: Mustafa Badarneh
Note: Islamic Jihad expressed reservations on the item
pertaining to the negotiations
