A recommendation calling for the creation of a Palestinian state and the deployment of European peace force to protect the Arab population in the administered territories will be presented next month to the European Parliament at its plenary session in Strasbourg, France.
The measures, contained in a report approved by the Parliament’s Political Commission, was presented by Fernando Perez-Royo of Spain, who represented a leftist bloc.
“A just and lasting peace in the Middle East cannot be established as long as the legitimate rights of the Palestinians are not recognized, notably their right to self-determination, which implies the creation of a Palestinian state,” the report says.
The commission also appealed to the Arab world to accept that “Israel is not an ephemeral phenomenon,” and that “only the reconciliation between the Jewish and Arab people offers prospects for the future in the Middle East.”
The commission said “the revision of the Palestinian national charter and the formal recognition of the state of Israel, within the framework of a dialogue that Israel would accept with the Palestinians, would represent new confidence measures which would facilitate the peace process.”
The commission called on the United States to maintain higher-level contacts with the Palestine Liberation Organization, and recommended the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations with Israel.
Meanwhile, the commission affirmed the Algiers statement of the Palestine National Council of April 1988 that named the PLO as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, and their sole interlocutor in the framework of the peace process.
It also called on the E.C. to send a European peace force under U.N. mandate to the Israel administered territories to protect the population.
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