Actualité - PLO Plans to Reactivate Peace Process Arab League to Take Conflict with Israel to UN Security Council in September
Franc-Parler présente un texte du Palestine Media Center qui explique les projets futurs de la ligue arabe et du Président palestinien, Mahmoud Abbas, pour créer la paix au Moyen-Orient. Ceux-ci semblent s'en remettre à l'ONU pour négocier un plan de paix. Est-ce que l'ONU a déjà réglé le sort de bien des pays depuis sa création? Détient-elle ce pouvoir?
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on Saturday discussed the possibility of announcing a plan “to reactivate the peace process and the final status negotiations” with Israel, a day ahead of a meeting in Cairo on Sunday of the Arab foreign ministers to pave the way for an Arab summit in Saudi Arabia planned for later this month, amid reports that the Arab countries are putting together a peace plan to present to the U.N. Security Council next month.
The PLO Executive Committee studied the “possibility of announcing a political plan to reactivate the peace process and the final status negotiations, particularly after the collapse of the (Israeli) unilateral and one-sided solutions.”
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas chaired the meeting of the PLO Executive Committee in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Saturday.
“It is becoming clear, in more than one arena, that reaching a comprehensive peace in the region and ending the era of wars requires in essence a settlement of the question of Palestine in accordance with the United Nations resolutions and an end to the occupation of all the Lebanese and Syrian territories,” the PLO said, according to the official news agency WAFA.
Members of the PLO Executive Committee (EC) “praised (President Abbas) Abu Mazen’s efforts to convene an international conference to end the dispute in the region,” member of the EC Saleh Ra’fat, told the AFP.
Abbas “briefed the meeting on his consultations with the leaders of the Arab countries to move in the UN Security Council with the aim of convening an international conference to end the Arab – Israeli dispute,” Ra’fat said.
On Thursday Mahmoud Abbas announced in Gaza that he was working on a new plan to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, adding the initiative will be submitted at the September session of the U.N. Security Council.
“We are in consultation with Arab countries and friends to present a plan based on international legitimacy to the U.N. General Assembly in order to revive the peace process,” he said without elaboration.
“A solution can only come through negotiation. We will never accept the imposition of a unilateral solution, whatever it is,” said Abbas, adding: “It is unacceptable that the peace process remains in this state.”
Arab Foreign Ministers in Cairo
Arab foreign ministers decided to take the issue to the UN Security Council at a meeting in Cairo on July 15, two days after Israel launched its war on Lebanon following the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hizbullah.
At that meeting, Arab ministers declared the Middle East peace process “Dead,” blaming Israel for its demise.
“The Middle East peace process has failed,” Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa said after that meeting.
Arab League foreign ministers have asked to send a delegation to a ministerial meeting of the Security Council in September to initiate a new effort to bring lasting peace between the Israelis and Palestinians after nearly 60 years of conflict.
Yahya Mahmassani, the Arab League's envoy to the United Nations, said he had personally discussed the foreign ministers' request with the 15 Security Council members and “there is very strong support” for the idea of convening a council meeting. It will likely take place between Sept. 20-24, he told the AP.
“Now, we are working ... on what outcome would be coming out of this meeting,” Mahmassani said.
He said bringing the question of the Arab-Israeli conflict to the Security Council will be one of the main items on the agenda of an Arab ministerial meeting on Sunday at Arab League headquarters in Cairo.
A “road map” was drafted by the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia - known as the Quartet - and aimed to end the most recent Middle East violence and establish a Palestinian state by 2005.
“We consider the peace process, the Quartet, the road map, have not achieved their objective,” Mahmassani said, adding: “So we want to bring up the whole issue of the Arab-Israeli conflict ... and especially the peace process in order to initiate a new peace process that will achieve ... a final, just and lasting settlement for the Arab-Israeli conflict in the region.”
The AP reported that Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan are spearheading the Arab League effort: “Leaders of the three moderate Arab governments want to seize the opportunity in the war's ashes to restart negotiations with Israel for peace on the Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese fronts.”
On Saturday, Russia's Foreign Ministry also said it is time to rethink the issue, saying the conflict with Hizbullah was rooted “in the lack of a comprehensive settlement in The Middle East.”
“Therefore, one of the main goals of the world community should be the concentration of efforts on creating conditions for the resumption of the peace process in the region on all tracks,” the ministry said. “One of the urgent tasks in that context is the normalization of the situation on the Palestinian territories and the resumption of dialogue between the Palestinian National Authority and Israel.”
Israel Skeptical
However the U.S. so far hasn't talked about a wider peace effort in the wake of the Lebanon crisis, instead focusing its efforts on ensuring the Iranian and Syrian-backed Hizbullah is reined in.
Similarly Israel was skeptical.
Israel’s UN Ambassador Dan Gillerman said he doubts that a new Arab League initiative to end decades of Arab-Israeli conflict would fairly consider Israel’s security needs: “We do believe road map (which was aborted by Israel and declared ‘dead’ by the Arab League) only viable option and only game in town,’ he said.
Gillerman told the AP he has serious doubts about any Arab League initiative.
“I don’t feel that any initiative by the Arab League or Amr Moussa has a great chance of being a fair one that would take Israel’s security concerns into consideration,” he said.
“We do believe that the road map is the only viable option and the only game in town,” Gillerman said.The Middle East peace process was put on hold after Israel’s former prime minister Ariel Sharon and current Prime Minister Ehud Olmert decided to determine their country’s borders with the Palestinians unilaterally.
The Haaretz daily on Friday the Israel PM Ehud Olmert as saying that an Israeli pullout from parts of the occupied Palestinian West Bank was no longer at the top of his government's agenda.
The pullout was no longer his top priority.
“This is what the prime minister said,” Olmert aide Asaf Shariv said, referring to the Haaretz newspaper report. “Right now, we will deal with other issues. It's not that it (the pullout) was canceled, but it is not on the agenda.”
Housing minister Meir Shetreet confirmed the Haaretz report but stressed that the withdrawal plan hadn’t been abandoned entirely.
“It is my assessment the prime minister will not deal with this [the West Bank pullout] in the coming period, because it's really not on the agenda,” Mr Shetreet told Israel army radio.
“I cannot say that the prime minister has dropped the plan. I don't think he has reached such a conclusion.”
Israeli “Defense” Minister Amir Peretz said Tuesday that Israel should prepare for dialogue with Syria, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and Lebanon, in the wake of the Lebanon ceasefire which took effect on Monday, adding that: “Every war creates political opportunity.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni appointed Yaakov (Yaki) Dayan a special “project manager” for possible negotiations with Syria, Israeli media reported Sunday.
(Palestine Media Center)
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on Saturday discussed the possibility of announcing a plan “to reactivate the peace process and the final status negotiations” with Israel, a day ahead of a meeting in Cairo on Sunday of the Arab foreign ministers to pave the way for an Arab summit in Saudi Arabia planned for later this month, amid reports that the Arab countries are putting together a peace plan to present to the U.N. Security Council next month.
The PLO Executive Committee studied the “possibility of announcing a political plan to reactivate the peace process and the final status negotiations, particularly after the collapse of the (Israeli) unilateral and one-sided solutions.”
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas chaired the meeting of the PLO Executive Committee in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Saturday.
“It is becoming clear, in more than one arena, that reaching a comprehensive peace in the region and ending the era of wars requires in essence a settlement of the question of Palestine in accordance with the United Nations resolutions and an end to the occupation of all the Lebanese and Syrian territories,” the PLO said, according to the official news agency WAFA.
Members of the PLO Executive Committee (EC) “praised (President Abbas) Abu Mazen’s efforts to convene an international conference to end the dispute in the region,” member of the EC Saleh Ra’fat, told the AFP.
Abbas “briefed the meeting on his consultations with the leaders of the Arab countries to move in the UN Security Council with the aim of convening an international conference to end the Arab – Israeli dispute,” Ra’fat said.
On Thursday Mahmoud Abbas announced in Gaza that he was working on a new plan to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, adding the initiative will be submitted at the September session of the U.N. Security Council.
“We are in consultation with Arab countries and friends to present a plan based on international legitimacy to the U.N. General Assembly in order to revive the peace process,” he said without elaboration.
“A solution can only come through negotiation. We will never accept the imposition of a unilateral solution, whatever it is,” said Abbas, adding: “It is unacceptable that the peace process remains in this state.”
Arab Foreign Ministers in Cairo
Arab foreign ministers decided to take the issue to the UN Security Council at a meeting in Cairo on July 15, two days after Israel launched its war on Lebanon following the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hizbullah.
At that meeting, Arab ministers declared the Middle East peace process “Dead,” blaming Israel for its demise.
“The Middle East peace process has failed,” Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa said after that meeting.
Arab League foreign ministers have asked to send a delegation to a ministerial meeting of the Security Council in September to initiate a new effort to bring lasting peace between the Israelis and Palestinians after nearly 60 years of conflict.
Yahya Mahmassani, the Arab League's envoy to the United Nations, said he had personally discussed the foreign ministers' request with the 15 Security Council members and “there is very strong support” for the idea of convening a council meeting. It will likely take place between Sept. 20-24, he told the AP.
“Now, we are working ... on what outcome would be coming out of this meeting,” Mahmassani said.
He said bringing the question of the Arab-Israeli conflict to the Security Council will be one of the main items on the agenda of an Arab ministerial meeting on Sunday at Arab League headquarters in Cairo.
A “road map” was drafted by the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia - known as the Quartet - and aimed to end the most recent Middle East violence and establish a Palestinian state by 2005.
“We consider the peace process, the Quartet, the road map, have not achieved their objective,” Mahmassani said, adding: “So we want to bring up the whole issue of the Arab-Israeli conflict ... and especially the peace process in order to initiate a new peace process that will achieve ... a final, just and lasting settlement for the Arab-Israeli conflict in the region.”
The AP reported that Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan are spearheading the Arab League effort: “Leaders of the three moderate Arab governments want to seize the opportunity in the war's ashes to restart negotiations with Israel for peace on the Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese fronts.”
On Saturday, Russia's Foreign Ministry also said it is time to rethink the issue, saying the conflict with Hizbullah was rooted “in the lack of a comprehensive settlement in The Middle East.”
“Therefore, one of the main goals of the world community should be the concentration of efforts on creating conditions for the resumption of the peace process in the region on all tracks,” the ministry said. “One of the urgent tasks in that context is the normalization of the situation on the Palestinian territories and the resumption of dialogue between the Palestinian National Authority and Israel.”
Israel Skeptical
However the U.S. so far hasn't talked about a wider peace effort in the wake of the Lebanon crisis, instead focusing its efforts on ensuring the Iranian and Syrian-backed Hizbullah is reined in.
Similarly Israel was skeptical.
Israel’s UN Ambassador Dan Gillerman said he doubts that a new Arab League initiative to end decades of Arab-Israeli conflict would fairly consider Israel’s security needs: “We do believe road map (which was aborted by Israel and declared ‘dead’ by the Arab League) only viable option and only game in town,’ he said.
Gillerman told the AP he has serious doubts about any Arab League initiative.
“I don’t feel that any initiative by the Arab League or Amr Moussa has a great chance of being a fair one that would take Israel’s security concerns into consideration,” he said.
“We do believe that the road map is the only viable option and the only game in town,” Gillerman said.The Middle East peace process was put on hold after Israel’s former prime minister Ariel Sharon and current Prime Minister Ehud Olmert decided to determine their country’s borders with the Palestinians unilaterally.
The Haaretz daily on Friday the Israel PM Ehud Olmert as saying that an Israeli pullout from parts of the occupied Palestinian West Bank was no longer at the top of his government's agenda.
The pullout was no longer his top priority.
“This is what the prime minister said,” Olmert aide Asaf Shariv said, referring to the Haaretz newspaper report. “Right now, we will deal with other issues. It's not that it (the pullout) was canceled, but it is not on the agenda.”
Housing minister Meir Shetreet confirmed the Haaretz report but stressed that the withdrawal plan hadn’t been abandoned entirely.
“It is my assessment the prime minister will not deal with this [the West Bank pullout] in the coming period, because it's really not on the agenda,” Mr Shetreet told Israel army radio.
“I cannot say that the prime minister has dropped the plan. I don't think he has reached such a conclusion.”
Israeli “Defense” Minister Amir Peretz said Tuesday that Israel should prepare for dialogue with Syria, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and Lebanon, in the wake of the Lebanon ceasefire which took effect on Monday, adding that: “Every war creates political opportunity.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni appointed Yaakov (Yaki) Dayan a special “project manager” for possible negotiations with Syria, Israeli media reported Sunday.
(Palestine Media Center)
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