Arab leaders, at the end of their 27th Arab Summit in Nouakchott on Monday, approved a number of decisions including a decision on the Palestinian issue. The decision included highlighting the Arab and international efforts to find a comprehensive solution to the Palestinian cause, especially the French initiative to hold an international conference for peace before the end of 2016. The stressed that the proposed conference should set multilateral mechanisms to end the Israeli occupation of the Arab and Palestinian territories since 1967 according to a timetable. They emphasized their principled support for the right of the Palestinian people to regain their inalienable national rights, including the right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state on the territory occupied since June 1967. They warned that the illegal Israeli measures to Judaize and change Arab character of Jerusalem risk provoke religious conflict in the region. The leaders assigned the Arab group in the United Nations and Egypt, which was currently a non-permanent member in the UNSC, to work with other regional and international groups in the UN to press the international community to take action against the Israeli violations. They asked the Arab group to present draft resolutions to the UNSC to condemn the illegal Israeli settlement activities on the Palestinian territories and to provide Palestinian people with international protection against the human rights violations committed by Israeli forces. They reiterated the full support for the efforts of the State of Palestine to accede to international treaties and organizations. They urged the International Quartet Group for Peace to reconsider its latest report about the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories. They lamented the group for failing to differentiate between the legal obligations of the Israeli occupiers and the occupied Palestinians. They criticized the nomination of Israel, the occupying country, to the presidency of the UN General Assembly's Legal Committee. They categorically rejected Israeli calls for recognizing Israeli as a Jewish state, and condemned all the Israeli measure to change the geographic and demographic status quo of the occupied Palestinian territories. They urged all Palestinian parties to intensify their efforts towards reconciliation, national unity and general elections. They acclaimed Kuwait's announcement of a plan to host an international conference on the suffering of Palestinian children under the Israeli occupation. The Arab leaders also welcomed the visit paid by Kuwait's First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah heading a senior Arab and Muslim delegation to Jerusalem and Ramallah to show solidarity with Palestinian people. --More
