The Arab
League "Peace Plan"
(March 27, 2002)
Following is the text of the "Arab
Peace Initiative" adopted at the Arab League summit in Beirut.
"The Council of the League of Arab
States at the Summit Level, at its 14th Ordinary Session;
Reaffirming the resolution taken in June 1996 at the Cairo
Extraordinary Arab Summit that a just and
comprehensive peace in the Middle East is the strategic option of the
Arab Countries, to be achieved in
accordance with International Legality, and which would require a
comparable commitment on the part
of the Israeli Government.
Having listened to the statement made by His Royal Highness Prince
Abdullah Bin Abdullaziz, the
Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in which his Highness
presented his Initiative, calling for
full Israeli withdrawal from all the Arab territories occupied since
June 1967, in implementation of
Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, reaffirmed by the Madrid
Conference of 1991 and the land
for peace principle, and Israel's acceptance of an independent
Palestinian State, with East Jerusalem as
its capital, in return for the establishment of normal relations in the
context of a comprehensive peace
with Israel.
Emanating from the conviction of the Arab countries that a military
solution to the conflict will not
achieve peace or provide security for the parties, the council:
1. Requests Israel to reconsider its policies and declare that a just
peace is its strategic option as well.
2. Further calls upon Israel to affirm:
a. Full Israeli withdrawal from all the territories
occupied since 1967, including the Syrian Golan
Heights to the lines of June 4, 1967 as well as the remaining occupied
Lebanese territories in the south
of Lebanon.
b. Achievement of a just solution to the Palestinian
Refugee problem to be agreed upon in
accordance with UN General Assembly Resolution 194.
c. The acceptance of the establishment of a
Sovereign Independent Palestinian State on the
Palestinian territories occupied since the 4th of June 1967 in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip, with East
Jerusalem as its capital.
3. Consequently, the Arab Countries affirm the following:
a. Consider the Arab-Israeli conflict ended, and
enter into a peace agreement with Israel, and
provide security for all the states of the region.
b. Establish normal relations with Israel in the
context of this comprehensive peace.
4. Assures the rejection of all forms of Palestinian patriation which
conflict with the special
circumstances of the Arab host countries.
5. Calls upon the Government of Israel and all Israelis to accept this
initiative in order to safeguard the
prospects for peace and stop the further shedding of blood, enabling
the Arab Countries and Israel to
live in peace and good neighborliness and provide future generations
with security, stability, and
prosperity.
6. Invites the International Community and all countries and
Organizations to support this initiative.
7. Requests the Chairman of the Summit to form a special committee
composed of some of its
concerned member states and the Secretary General of the League of Arab
States to pursue the
necessary contacts to gain support for this initiative at all levels,
particularly from the United Nations,
the Security Council, the United States of America, the Russian
Federation, the Muslim States and the
European Union."
Source: Jerusalem Post, (March 28, 2002)