Index:
1. SPS Statement on the occasion of the 7th Baghdad Conference
(Baghdad, May 7-9, 2002)
2. Saopstenje od Bagdadske konferencije (U Bagdadu 9. maja 2002)
3. Final Communiqué of 7th Meeting of Baghdad Conference
Follow-up and Coordination Committee
===*===
> http://www.sps.org.yu/eng/news/2002.05/06.html
Belgrade, May 06th, 2002
THE STATEMENT OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF SERBIA
THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF SERBIA IS AGAINST PRESSURES, THREATS AND
SANCTIONS THAT IRAQI PEOPLE ARE EXPOSED TO
ON DAILY BASIS
ON THE OCCASSION OF THE SEVENTH SESSION OF THE BAGHDAD
COMMITTEE TO BE HELD AT BAGHDAD ON MAY 07-09, 2002
THE TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER
It is not difficult to see that world today has
entered into new dark age of uncertainty, stagnation, wars,
destructions and deep spiritual, ideological and political
crisis.
The present political order in the world, which is based on
force and power, on bombs and Tomahawk missiles, is permanent
source of new dangerous wars and catastrophic crises.
Is there any better proof for such conclusions then
new war-threats against Iraq, a sovereign country and founding
member of the United Nations, the threats that are completely
baseless and contrary to the international law.
Besides, it is clear to everybody in the world that
Iraq can not be the threat to anybody since it is the country
that is already for 11 years a victim of the unjust sanctions
and deadly pressures that could be compared to genocide.
However, this heroic country threatened on the daily basis by
new military pressures, invasions, bombardments and similar
"tools" of so called new world order.
The Socialist Party of Serbia is convinced that any
new military action against Iraq and its friendly people can
cause new regional and global crisis with extremely dangerous
and unforeseeable consequences, as well as harder and more
dangerous life for whole world.
The Socialist Party of Serbia expresses its solidarity
with friendly Iraq, seeing Iraq, in its courageous resistance
against unjust pressures and military threats, as one of the
torches of freedom in the present "globalized" world.. On the
other hand, it is evident that brave Iraqi people are supported
every new day by more and more countries and people in the
world, particularly in the Arab world.
One should not forget that creation of the so called
new world order, after 50 years of bipolarism, has started
through military actions against Iraq, actions which has caused
terrible sufferings of Iraqi people in last 12 years.
As the biggest political party in Yugoslavia and the
most numerous political force in Balkans, the Socialist Party
of Serbia is convinced that all kind of pressures and
media-warfare against Iraq (and some other countries) are
totally absurd and senseless.
The information system in the world has become the public
relations service of the aggressive power centers and the
richest capitalists in the Western world.
Fortunately, such senseless propaganda is becoming almost
totally useless and counterproductive for its creators.
The best proof for that is the fact that all attempts to
connect Iraq and some other countries with so called
international terrorism has failed in the very short period of
time, causing the big problems for all those who are trying to
poison the people in the world with such lies.
One of the most essential things today is to have one
objective and true assessment of the results of the new world
order since those "global changes" caused in the world nothing
but new problems, new wars, new killings and growing misery and
despair.
The present "globalization" in all its forms is
nothing else but new form of imposing the domination and
military hegemony in the world. One can be assured in this
assessment by seeing new threats against the poorest countries
of the world, new displacement of the troops, new pressures,
new crisis and new dangerous hotbeds all over the world.
The whole world came to the very edge of the cataclysm
and historical crossroad. It is obvious that the rich countries
are not able any more to keep their domination and they are
just deepening the agony of the world by new crisis, new
threats and new wars. The history will soon prove that the
unipolar world is impossible and that mulipolarism is the only
alternative for the mankind.
What are the true consequences of bombardments and
sanctions we Yugoslavs know very well. Today it has become
clear how short-sighted were those who believed that unnatural
changes and "reforms", as well as "self-slavery" could be less
evil then freedom and independence. For the handful of
promises, they forget that slaves have no rights and prospects.
Who can trust to the "new masters of the world" that are
conquering the world when they are promising new donors'
conferences and new billions of dollars for the
"reconstructions"?
By defending its independence, freedom and dignity, the people
of Iraq, of Yugoslavia and other countries that have the sword
of new world order over their heads - they contribute to the
future of mankind, to brighter history of human civilization,
to better life for all people on our Earth, to active peacefull
coexistence, to the strenghtening of the peace and
international solidarity in the world, making in that way the
real and the only possible defense for the whole humanity and
every human being against aggressive plans for the political
and economic colonization of the world which is threatening to
destroy very basis of human existence.
===*===
> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/05/10-02.html
10. maja 2002. godine
Beograd
SAOP©TENjE
Sinoæ je zavr¹eno Sedmo zasedanje Komiteta za
praæenje i koordinaciju Bagdadske konferencije, na
kojem je uèestvovalo oko 160 predstavnika iz oko 90
politièkih partija i drugih organizacija iz oko 40
zemalja sveta. Na konferenciji je uèetvovalo i vi¹e
predstavnika iz Jugoslavije.
Ovaj meðunarodni skup je usvojio dokument kojim
se najsna¾nije zahteva pu¹tanje na slobodu
predsednika Slobodana Milo¹eviæa.
Zajednièka izjava je usvojena na inicijativu
predstavnika SPS-a ®ivorada Igiæa.
Integralni tekst zajednièke izjave:
"Na Sedmom zasedanju Komiteta za praæenje i
koordinaciju Bagdadske konferencije koja je odr¾ana u
Bagdadu od 7. do 9. maja 2002. godine, razmatrajuæi
pitanje stavljanja predsednika Slobodana Milo¹eviæa
pred takozvani "Ad hoc tribunal Ujedinjenih nacija" u
Hagu,
Konferencija je usvojila sledeæu
ZAJEDNIÈKU IZJAVU
1. Konferencija ne prihvata legalitet pomenutog
tribunala jer on nije konstituisan u skladu sa pravom
i jer je politièki motivisan.
2. Narod Jugoslavije je jedini kompetentan da se bavi
svim pitanjima koja se odnose na njihovu domovinu,
Jugoslaviju.
3. Predsednik Slobodan Milo¹eviæ mora biti odmah
pu¹ten iz ilegalnog zatoèeni¹tva, po¹to je njegovo
osloboðenje jedini akt koji je u skladu sa
meðunarodnim pravom i Poveljom Ujedinjenih nacija.
Uèesnici Sedmog zasedanja Komiteta za praæenje i
koordinaciju
Bagdadske konferencije
U Bagdadu 9. maja 2002."
===*===
> http://www.uruklink.net/iraqnews/enews27.htm
Final Communiqué of 7th Meeting of Baghdad Conference
Follow-up and Coordination Committee
The Baghdad Conference Follow-up and
Coordination Committee convened its 7th meeting
in Baghdad on 7 -9th May, 2002, chaired by its Chairman,
Head of the Arab Ba'th Socialist Party's Foreign
Relations Bureau Mr. Tariq Aziz, under the
slogan (The Aggression and Embargo on Iraq
are an Arab and International Issue).
Over (159) participants, representing (34)
countries, from Asia, Africa, Europe, the
Americas and the Arab Homeland took part in
this meeting, numerous figures attended the
meeting for the first time.
The meeting focused on the main and basic
aspects of Iraq's just cause of opposing the
embargo and the continuing aggression. It
also addressed other basic and international
issues, related to the worldwide struggle
for independence, justice and peace.
The participants reviewed the regional and
international developments, relevant to the
continuing American embargo and aggression
on Iraq, and recounted the activities of the
past 6 months.
The participants cited, with great pride,
the growing Arab and worldwide support and
solidarity with Iraq's cause and pointed
with satisfaction to the outcome of the 14th
Arab Summit Conference, held in Beirut, Lebanon in March, 2002,
represented by the solid progress achieved in promoting Arab
solidarity and Arab support for the lifting of the embargo, and
rejection of any threats of aggression on Iraq. The participants
also expressed high appreciation of the position taken by the Arab
masses and their vanguard, in calling for the lifting of the
embargo, and the end of aggression and conspiracies against Iraq.
The stand of Arab masses was manifested in the convening of the 7th
Arab Popular Forces Conference (Baghdad, March, 2002), the 12th
Pan-Arab Nationalist Conference (Manama, April, 2002), the General
Pan-Arab Conference (Beirut,March,2002), the Arab Democratic,
Revolutionary Dialogue Forum ( Cairo, April, 2002), and the Arab
Parliamentary Conference ( Khartoum, Febraury,2002), as well as
the numerous conferences and meetings of the parties, parliaments,
popular federations and professional organizations and unions in
various Arab capitals and cities, which have sent a clear and firm
message to the Washington-London axis that aggression on Iraq,
under any pretexts, is rejected, and the embargo must be lifted
immediately, and without any condition.
At the International level, the participants
hailed the continuity of activities of
support and solidarity with Iraq in various
capitals of the world. In this respect, we
may point to the conference of the Foreign
Friendship Associations with Iraq and the
Arab Peace and Solidarity Councils, held in
Baghdad in May, 2002, and the Porto Allegre
Conference, held in Brazil on 31 Jan. - 5
Feb., 2002, which condemned the embargo on
Iraq, in addition to the activities
organized by the 8th October Revolutionary Movement in
Brazil, Sao Paolo Forum (December 2001), the Moscow Conference
organized by the Peace and Unity Party, the various activities
conducted by the Communist Party, and the Russian Duma, along with
the important activities undertaken by Mr. George Galloway, the
British Labour MP, against American aggression on Iraq, the
Spanish Campaign for Lifting the Embargo on Iraq, the
Anti-Globalization Barcelona meeting (February- 2002), the Quito
meeting in Ecuador (May- 2002) the mass demonstrations organized
in London, Paris and other capitals, the activities of the NGOs in
Geneva, the Belgian Parliament's resolution calling
for lifting the embargo, the activities
organized in India and Pakistan in this
regard, the communiqué signed by hundreds of
international personalities and published
the International Herald Tribune daily on
March 20, 2002 and many other similar
activities worldwide.
The participants of the meeting denounced
the feverish American escalation and the
threat of a new aggression on Iraq under
false and unacceptable pretexts, as well as
the launching of a political, and media
campaign falsely alleging that Iraq has
resumed the production of weapons of mass
destruction and threatening its neighbors.
The participants declared their utmost
rejection of what the US administration
alleges and openly works on changing the
national and independent regime in Baghdad,
mobilizing agents, financing terrorist
activities and providing wide-scale
propaganda for them, a matter that
contradicts the UN Charter, international
law and the Security Council (SC) relevant
resolutions, which assert the respect of
Iraq's sovereignty and territorial
integrity. The participants consider the US
interference in Iraq's internal affairs as a
terrorist and aggressive act and useless
attempt to impose foreign trusteeship on the
free Iraqi people. They rejected the evil
attempts of Washington to add new conditions
to the MOU (The oil-for-food and medicine
program) when the discussion for extending
the 12th phase of the MOU at the end of May, by adopting a long
list of prohibited goods, which is part of the (smart sanctions)
proposal that tightens the embargo instead of lifting it.
The meeting focused on the current events in
Palestine. The participants affirmed their
support to the Intifadha of the Palestinian
people against Zionist occupation and the
right of Palestinian people of struggle for
getting rid of the occupation. They strongly
condemned the monstrous crimes committed by
the Zionist occupation forces against the
Palestinian people, particularly the recent
incursion, reoccupying the cities of the
West Bank, soiling Islamic and Christian
shrines and surrounding the compound of the
Palestinian President. They consider the
events in Jenin Refugee Camp as a crime
against humanity and a stigma, holding the
US- Israeli alliance responsible for it,
where savage massacres took place against
the civilians whose homes were destroyed
with them inside using the most horrific US
weapons. The meeting condemned the rejection
of rulers of Tel-Aviv to allow UN
fact-finding team to visit the Camp, a
matter that reaffirms their committing of
genocide against the humanity.
The 7th meeting, while it condemns the violation of the
Palestinian human rights by the Zionist forces with US support,
calls for prosecuting the Zionists war criminals. It considers the
US administration as partner in the massacres against the
steadfast Palestinian people, holding it responsible politically,
legally, morally and materially.
The participants in the 7th meeting are
absolutely sure of the ability of the
Palestinian people's legitimate resistance
against occupation, steadfastness and
achieving the complete victory by liberating
their homeland and establishing their
independent state with Al-Quds as its
capital and the return of the refugees to
their homes, asserting that aggressive
Zionist racism backed by the US absolute
support is doomed to failure and defeat,
expressing belief in the unity of the cause
of Iraq and Palestine, which forms the first
trench in facing the aggression and
occupation.
The 7th meeting hailed Iraq's stances declared by
President Saddam Hussein to provide all
forms of political and material support to
the Palestinian people and the victims of
the Zionist aggression under occupation such
as the families of the martyrs, the wounded
and those who had their homes destroyed in
Jenin Camp as well as the foods and medicine
caravans for the citizens placed under siege
and are subjected to annihilation.
The meeting highly appreciated the
steadfastness displayed by the people of
Palestine, their sacrifices and heroic deeds
in the face of Zionist occupation. The
meeting reiterated its full support to the
national and inalienable rights of the
Palestinian people. The meeting demanded the
provision of all forms of urgent support for
the reconstruction of what has been
devastated, for the compensation of the
human and material damage, for the
disclosure of all facts before international
public opinion and for the holding of Arab
and international tribunals for the trial of
those responsible for the Zionist and US crimes
of mass extermination and racial
"purgation", and condemns Sharon's crimes
and calls for taking legal measures against
him. The meeting also reiterated its support
for Syria and Lebanon in the face of
Zionist, terrorist aggressions and threats.
The meeting demanded the application of
para. 14 of SCR 687, calling for the
dismantling weapons of mass destruction
possessed by the Zionist entity and for
declaring the Middle East region free of
them.
The meeting referred to the double standards
which have widely and amazingly been adopted
by the Security Council and the UN regarding
the massacres committed against the people
of Palestine. The meeting emphasized the
necessity of struggling against this immoral
policy which encourages imperialism and
Zionism of indulging in their aggression.
Members of the Baghdad Conference Follow-up
and Coordination Committee renewed their
demand that the Security Council should
immediately and unconditionally lift the
sanctions imposed on Iraq, end the illegal
no-fly-zones in the northern and southern
parts of Iraq, condemn the on-going US and
British warplane attacks, reject any US
aggression on Iraq whatever its pretexts,
respect Iraq's unity, sovereignty,
independence, national security and stop
interfering in its internal affairs, expand
cooperation in all fields, apply article 50
of the UN Charter and resume regular air
flights to Baghdad and renewed their demand
to evacuate the US and British forces from
the Arab Gulf region.
The 7th meeting, as a result of the US tendency of dominating
the world and of its capitalist and monopolist greed, believed
that the need is now more urgent for the crystallization of new
centres of polarization instead of the uni-polar dictatorship for
the current international relations. Within this context, members
of the 7th meeting expressed their unqualified support for
President Saddam Hussein's call for establishing an
Institutional Gathering starting with
countries of the east for the realization of
equilibrium, for the preservation of
security and stability,for the constructive
cooperation between nations and peoples, for
the respect of their particularities and
doctrines and for conducting dialogue among
their cultures and experiences without
obliteration or fighting. The meeting paid
tribute to the steadfastness of Iraq,
leadership and people, which has set an
inspiring example for all Arab and foreign
free men in the face of US hegemony and
Zionist aggressiveness. Lending support to
Iraq by lifting the embargo imposed on it
and halting the aggression should remain a
task of priority of goodwill, freedom, peace
and progress all over the world.
The meeting hailed peoples and free men all
over the world, who with all means have
expressed their support and solidarity with
the issue of Palestine and Iraq and their
resistance to hegemony and aggression.
The meeting heard a large number of positive
ideas and proposals, which constitute a
program of action for the Baghdad
Conference. The parties, organizations and
personalities who took part in the meeting
are full of enthusiasm and hope for the
realization of greater progress along the
path of our noble objective.
The participants decided to hold the 8th
meeting of the Follow -up and Coordination
Committee on 29-31 October, 2002.
Participants
Baghdad Conference
7th Follow-up and Coordination Meeting
May 9 , 2002
1. SPS Statement on the occasion of the 7th Baghdad Conference
(Baghdad, May 7-9, 2002)
2. Saopstenje od Bagdadske konferencije (U Bagdadu 9. maja 2002)
3. Final Communiqué of 7th Meeting of Baghdad Conference
Follow-up and Coordination Committee
===*===
> http://www.sps.org.yu/eng/news/2002.05/06.html
Belgrade, May 06th, 2002
THE STATEMENT OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF SERBIA
THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF SERBIA IS AGAINST PRESSURES, THREATS AND
SANCTIONS THAT IRAQI PEOPLE ARE EXPOSED TO
ON DAILY BASIS
ON THE OCCASSION OF THE SEVENTH SESSION OF THE BAGHDAD
COMMITTEE TO BE HELD AT BAGHDAD ON MAY 07-09, 2002
THE TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER
It is not difficult to see that world today has
entered into new dark age of uncertainty, stagnation, wars,
destructions and deep spiritual, ideological and political
crisis.
The present political order in the world, which is based on
force and power, on bombs and Tomahawk missiles, is permanent
source of new dangerous wars and catastrophic crises.
Is there any better proof for such conclusions then
new war-threats against Iraq, a sovereign country and founding
member of the United Nations, the threats that are completely
baseless and contrary to the international law.
Besides, it is clear to everybody in the world that
Iraq can not be the threat to anybody since it is the country
that is already for 11 years a victim of the unjust sanctions
and deadly pressures that could be compared to genocide.
However, this heroic country threatened on the daily basis by
new military pressures, invasions, bombardments and similar
"tools" of so called new world order.
The Socialist Party of Serbia is convinced that any
new military action against Iraq and its friendly people can
cause new regional and global crisis with extremely dangerous
and unforeseeable consequences, as well as harder and more
dangerous life for whole world.
The Socialist Party of Serbia expresses its solidarity
with friendly Iraq, seeing Iraq, in its courageous resistance
against unjust pressures and military threats, as one of the
torches of freedom in the present "globalized" world.. On the
other hand, it is evident that brave Iraqi people are supported
every new day by more and more countries and people in the
world, particularly in the Arab world.
One should not forget that creation of the so called
new world order, after 50 years of bipolarism, has started
through military actions against Iraq, actions which has caused
terrible sufferings of Iraqi people in last 12 years.
As the biggest political party in Yugoslavia and the
most numerous political force in Balkans, the Socialist Party
of Serbia is convinced that all kind of pressures and
media-warfare against Iraq (and some other countries) are
totally absurd and senseless.
The information system in the world has become the public
relations service of the aggressive power centers and the
richest capitalists in the Western world.
Fortunately, such senseless propaganda is becoming almost
totally useless and counterproductive for its creators.
The best proof for that is the fact that all attempts to
connect Iraq and some other countries with so called
international terrorism has failed in the very short period of
time, causing the big problems for all those who are trying to
poison the people in the world with such lies.
One of the most essential things today is to have one
objective and true assessment of the results of the new world
order since those "global changes" caused in the world nothing
but new problems, new wars, new killings and growing misery and
despair.
The present "globalization" in all its forms is
nothing else but new form of imposing the domination and
military hegemony in the world. One can be assured in this
assessment by seeing new threats against the poorest countries
of the world, new displacement of the troops, new pressures,
new crisis and new dangerous hotbeds all over the world.
The whole world came to the very edge of the cataclysm
and historical crossroad. It is obvious that the rich countries
are not able any more to keep their domination and they are
just deepening the agony of the world by new crisis, new
threats and new wars. The history will soon prove that the
unipolar world is impossible and that mulipolarism is the only
alternative for the mankind.
What are the true consequences of bombardments and
sanctions we Yugoslavs know very well. Today it has become
clear how short-sighted were those who believed that unnatural
changes and "reforms", as well as "self-slavery" could be less
evil then freedom and independence. For the handful of
promises, they forget that slaves have no rights and prospects.
Who can trust to the "new masters of the world" that are
conquering the world when they are promising new donors'
conferences and new billions of dollars for the
"reconstructions"?
By defending its independence, freedom and dignity, the people
of Iraq, of Yugoslavia and other countries that have the sword
of new world order over their heads - they contribute to the
future of mankind, to brighter history of human civilization,
to better life for all people on our Earth, to active peacefull
coexistence, to the strenghtening of the peace and
international solidarity in the world, making in that way the
real and the only possible defense for the whole humanity and
every human being against aggressive plans for the political
and economic colonization of the world which is threatening to
destroy very basis of human existence.
===*===
> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2002/05/10-02.html
10. maja 2002. godine
Beograd
SAOP©TENjE
Sinoæ je zavr¹eno Sedmo zasedanje Komiteta za
praæenje i koordinaciju Bagdadske konferencije, na
kojem je uèestvovalo oko 160 predstavnika iz oko 90
politièkih partija i drugih organizacija iz oko 40
zemalja sveta. Na konferenciji je uèetvovalo i vi¹e
predstavnika iz Jugoslavije.
Ovaj meðunarodni skup je usvojio dokument kojim
se najsna¾nije zahteva pu¹tanje na slobodu
predsednika Slobodana Milo¹eviæa.
Zajednièka izjava je usvojena na inicijativu
predstavnika SPS-a ®ivorada Igiæa.
Integralni tekst zajednièke izjave:
"Na Sedmom zasedanju Komiteta za praæenje i
koordinaciju Bagdadske konferencije koja je odr¾ana u
Bagdadu od 7. do 9. maja 2002. godine, razmatrajuæi
pitanje stavljanja predsednika Slobodana Milo¹eviæa
pred takozvani "Ad hoc tribunal Ujedinjenih nacija" u
Hagu,
Konferencija je usvojila sledeæu
ZAJEDNIÈKU IZJAVU
1. Konferencija ne prihvata legalitet pomenutog
tribunala jer on nije konstituisan u skladu sa pravom
i jer je politièki motivisan.
2. Narod Jugoslavije je jedini kompetentan da se bavi
svim pitanjima koja se odnose na njihovu domovinu,
Jugoslaviju.
3. Predsednik Slobodan Milo¹eviæ mora biti odmah
pu¹ten iz ilegalnog zatoèeni¹tva, po¹to je njegovo
osloboðenje jedini akt koji je u skladu sa
meðunarodnim pravom i Poveljom Ujedinjenih nacija.
Uèesnici Sedmog zasedanja Komiteta za praæenje i
koordinaciju
Bagdadske konferencije
U Bagdadu 9. maja 2002."
===*===
> http://www.uruklink.net/iraqnews/enews27.htm
Final Communiqué of 7th Meeting of Baghdad Conference
Follow-up and Coordination Committee
The Baghdad Conference Follow-up and
Coordination Committee convened its 7th meeting
in Baghdad on 7 -9th May, 2002, chaired by its Chairman,
Head of the Arab Ba'th Socialist Party's Foreign
Relations Bureau Mr. Tariq Aziz, under the
slogan (The Aggression and Embargo on Iraq
are an Arab and International Issue).
Over (159) participants, representing (34)
countries, from Asia, Africa, Europe, the
Americas and the Arab Homeland took part in
this meeting, numerous figures attended the
meeting for the first time.
The meeting focused on the main and basic
aspects of Iraq's just cause of opposing the
embargo and the continuing aggression. It
also addressed other basic and international
issues, related to the worldwide struggle
for independence, justice and peace.
The participants reviewed the regional and
international developments, relevant to the
continuing American embargo and aggression
on Iraq, and recounted the activities of the
past 6 months.
The participants cited, with great pride,
the growing Arab and worldwide support and
solidarity with Iraq's cause and pointed
with satisfaction to the outcome of the 14th
Arab Summit Conference, held in Beirut, Lebanon in March, 2002,
represented by the solid progress achieved in promoting Arab
solidarity and Arab support for the lifting of the embargo, and
rejection of any threats of aggression on Iraq. The participants
also expressed high appreciation of the position taken by the Arab
masses and their vanguard, in calling for the lifting of the
embargo, and the end of aggression and conspiracies against Iraq.
The stand of Arab masses was manifested in the convening of the 7th
Arab Popular Forces Conference (Baghdad, March, 2002), the 12th
Pan-Arab Nationalist Conference (Manama, April, 2002), the General
Pan-Arab Conference (Beirut,March,2002), the Arab Democratic,
Revolutionary Dialogue Forum ( Cairo, April, 2002), and the Arab
Parliamentary Conference ( Khartoum, Febraury,2002), as well as
the numerous conferences and meetings of the parties, parliaments,
popular federations and professional organizations and unions in
various Arab capitals and cities, which have sent a clear and firm
message to the Washington-London axis that aggression on Iraq,
under any pretexts, is rejected, and the embargo must be lifted
immediately, and without any condition.
At the International level, the participants
hailed the continuity of activities of
support and solidarity with Iraq in various
capitals of the world. In this respect, we
may point to the conference of the Foreign
Friendship Associations with Iraq and the
Arab Peace and Solidarity Councils, held in
Baghdad in May, 2002, and the Porto Allegre
Conference, held in Brazil on 31 Jan. - 5
Feb., 2002, which condemned the embargo on
Iraq, in addition to the activities
organized by the 8th October Revolutionary Movement in
Brazil, Sao Paolo Forum (December 2001), the Moscow Conference
organized by the Peace and Unity Party, the various activities
conducted by the Communist Party, and the Russian Duma, along with
the important activities undertaken by Mr. George Galloway, the
British Labour MP, against American aggression on Iraq, the
Spanish Campaign for Lifting the Embargo on Iraq, the
Anti-Globalization Barcelona meeting (February- 2002), the Quito
meeting in Ecuador (May- 2002) the mass demonstrations organized
in London, Paris and other capitals, the activities of the NGOs in
Geneva, the Belgian Parliament's resolution calling
for lifting the embargo, the activities
organized in India and Pakistan in this
regard, the communiqué signed by hundreds of
international personalities and published
the International Herald Tribune daily on
March 20, 2002 and many other similar
activities worldwide.
The participants of the meeting denounced
the feverish American escalation and the
threat of a new aggression on Iraq under
false and unacceptable pretexts, as well as
the launching of a political, and media
campaign falsely alleging that Iraq has
resumed the production of weapons of mass
destruction and threatening its neighbors.
The participants declared their utmost
rejection of what the US administration
alleges and openly works on changing the
national and independent regime in Baghdad,
mobilizing agents, financing terrorist
activities and providing wide-scale
propaganda for them, a matter that
contradicts the UN Charter, international
law and the Security Council (SC) relevant
resolutions, which assert the respect of
Iraq's sovereignty and territorial
integrity. The participants consider the US
interference in Iraq's internal affairs as a
terrorist and aggressive act and useless
attempt to impose foreign trusteeship on the
free Iraqi people. They rejected the evil
attempts of Washington to add new conditions
to the MOU (The oil-for-food and medicine
program) when the discussion for extending
the 12th phase of the MOU at the end of May, by adopting a long
list of prohibited goods, which is part of the (smart sanctions)
proposal that tightens the embargo instead of lifting it.
The meeting focused on the current events in
Palestine. The participants affirmed their
support to the Intifadha of the Palestinian
people against Zionist occupation and the
right of Palestinian people of struggle for
getting rid of the occupation. They strongly
condemned the monstrous crimes committed by
the Zionist occupation forces against the
Palestinian people, particularly the recent
incursion, reoccupying the cities of the
West Bank, soiling Islamic and Christian
shrines and surrounding the compound of the
Palestinian President. They consider the
events in Jenin Refugee Camp as a crime
against humanity and a stigma, holding the
US- Israeli alliance responsible for it,
where savage massacres took place against
the civilians whose homes were destroyed
with them inside using the most horrific US
weapons. The meeting condemned the rejection
of rulers of Tel-Aviv to allow UN
fact-finding team to visit the Camp, a
matter that reaffirms their committing of
genocide against the humanity.
The 7th meeting, while it condemns the violation of the
Palestinian human rights by the Zionist forces with US support,
calls for prosecuting the Zionists war criminals. It considers the
US administration as partner in the massacres against the
steadfast Palestinian people, holding it responsible politically,
legally, morally and materially.
The participants in the 7th meeting are
absolutely sure of the ability of the
Palestinian people's legitimate resistance
against occupation, steadfastness and
achieving the complete victory by liberating
their homeland and establishing their
independent state with Al-Quds as its
capital and the return of the refugees to
their homes, asserting that aggressive
Zionist racism backed by the US absolute
support is doomed to failure and defeat,
expressing belief in the unity of the cause
of Iraq and Palestine, which forms the first
trench in facing the aggression and
occupation.
The 7th meeting hailed Iraq's stances declared by
President Saddam Hussein to provide all
forms of political and material support to
the Palestinian people and the victims of
the Zionist aggression under occupation such
as the families of the martyrs, the wounded
and those who had their homes destroyed in
Jenin Camp as well as the foods and medicine
caravans for the citizens placed under siege
and are subjected to annihilation.
The meeting highly appreciated the
steadfastness displayed by the people of
Palestine, their sacrifices and heroic deeds
in the face of Zionist occupation. The
meeting reiterated its full support to the
national and inalienable rights of the
Palestinian people. The meeting demanded the
provision of all forms of urgent support for
the reconstruction of what has been
devastated, for the compensation of the
human and material damage, for the
disclosure of all facts before international
public opinion and for the holding of Arab
and international tribunals for the trial of
those responsible for the Zionist and US crimes
of mass extermination and racial
"purgation", and condemns Sharon's crimes
and calls for taking legal measures against
him. The meeting also reiterated its support
for Syria and Lebanon in the face of
Zionist, terrorist aggressions and threats.
The meeting demanded the application of
para. 14 of SCR 687, calling for the
dismantling weapons of mass destruction
possessed by the Zionist entity and for
declaring the Middle East region free of
them.
The meeting referred to the double standards
which have widely and amazingly been adopted
by the Security Council and the UN regarding
the massacres committed against the people
of Palestine. The meeting emphasized the
necessity of struggling against this immoral
policy which encourages imperialism and
Zionism of indulging in their aggression.
Members of the Baghdad Conference Follow-up
and Coordination Committee renewed their
demand that the Security Council should
immediately and unconditionally lift the
sanctions imposed on Iraq, end the illegal
no-fly-zones in the northern and southern
parts of Iraq, condemn the on-going US and
British warplane attacks, reject any US
aggression on Iraq whatever its pretexts,
respect Iraq's unity, sovereignty,
independence, national security and stop
interfering in its internal affairs, expand
cooperation in all fields, apply article 50
of the UN Charter and resume regular air
flights to Baghdad and renewed their demand
to evacuate the US and British forces from
the Arab Gulf region.
The 7th meeting, as a result of the US tendency of dominating
the world and of its capitalist and monopolist greed, believed
that the need is now more urgent for the crystallization of new
centres of polarization instead of the uni-polar dictatorship for
the current international relations. Within this context, members
of the 7th meeting expressed their unqualified support for
President Saddam Hussein's call for establishing an
Institutional Gathering starting with
countries of the east for the realization of
equilibrium, for the preservation of
security and stability,for the constructive
cooperation between nations and peoples, for
the respect of their particularities and
doctrines and for conducting dialogue among
their cultures and experiences without
obliteration or fighting. The meeting paid
tribute to the steadfastness of Iraq,
leadership and people, which has set an
inspiring example for all Arab and foreign
free men in the face of US hegemony and
Zionist aggressiveness. Lending support to
Iraq by lifting the embargo imposed on it
and halting the aggression should remain a
task of priority of goodwill, freedom, peace
and progress all over the world.
The meeting hailed peoples and free men all
over the world, who with all means have
expressed their support and solidarity with
the issue of Palestine and Iraq and their
resistance to hegemony and aggression.
The meeting heard a large number of positive
ideas and proposals, which constitute a
program of action for the Baghdad
Conference. The parties, organizations and
personalities who took part in the meeting
are full of enthusiasm and hope for the
realization of greater progress along the
path of our noble objective.
The participants decided to hold the 8th
meeting of the Follow -up and Coordination
Committee on 29-31 October, 2002.
Participants
Baghdad Conference
7th Follow-up and Coordination Meeting
May 9 , 2002