Egypt Reiterates Support for Palestinian UprisingEgyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa underlined the necessity to support the alestinian uprising Thursday,November 30, saying that the reasons that set it off are still there.The latest three-way meeting held at Jordan's port city of Aqaba was aimed at taking coordinated measures to support the Palestinian uprising, Moussa was quoted as saying by Egypt's Middle East News Agency. On Tuesday, Moussa attended the meeting with Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdel Ilah al-Khatib, Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization Mahmoud Abbas, better known as Abu Mazen, and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat. During the meeting, the three sides reviewed the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories and ways to support the Palestinian struggle against Israel's brutalities. Moussa said the chief delegates to the Cairo-based 22-member Arab League will convene here on December 3 to discuss the situation in the Palestinian territories, as part of the Arab mechanism to carry out resolutions of last month's Arab summit. One week later, the Arab foreign ministers will also meet in Damascus, Syria, to follow up the implementation of the resolutions, which pledged to provide moral and financial aids to the Palestinians, he added. Moussa called for an international fact-finding committee to investigate the causes of the Palestinian-Israeli clashes, adding that international observers should be dispatched without hesitation or delay to protect the Palestinians. The two months of bloody clashes between Israeli troops and unarmed Palestinian civilians have left more than 280 people dead, most of them Palestinians, and thousands of others wounded. Moussa said what is going on shows that the peace process is not going in the right way. He urged all parties concerned to propose " proper, objective and neutral" solutions to the violence. He said that obviously, the Israelis, with what they have done and what they are doing, have entangled themselves in a quagmire more complicated than the Palestinian debacle. "The Israeli dilemma is multi-faceted and has its economic, social and international repercussions," said Moussa as the Jewish state prepared for early elections forced on Prime Minister Ehud Barak on Tuesday. |
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