NTERNATIONAL MEETING of Communist and Workers' Parties
22-24 June 2001, Athens
Resolution on Palestine
We, the representatives of the communist and workers parties, participating in the International Meeting at Athens during 22-24 June 2001, express our grave concern to the ongoing Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people for the last ten months.
The US the military, political and economic backer of the State of Israel bears the major responsibility for the defiant Israeli policy to the international law and norms.
The Palestinian lands occupied by Israel during 1967 war, are recognized by the UN and the International community as occupied land.
The Palestinian people are entitled to self determination and living in their independent and sovereign state, and thus entitled to resist occupation including the Israeli colonies established in the Palestinian occupied land.
Israel is using its military might to suppress the Palestinian people and entrench the expanding colonies in order to create demographic de facto change, thus claiming sovereignty on the Israeli colonies.
The Israeli slaughter of the Palestinian people and the blockade of Palestinian authority land is ongoing amid the paralysis of the international community represented by the UN, which is not upholding its responsibility to protect the Palestinian people due to the US pro- Israeli stand and the EU inaction.
We appeal to all; members of the UN, the international community and the people of the world to support the Palestinian people rights for international protection, withdrawal of Israeli forces, end of occupation, the right of Palestinian people to return to their homeland, and the establishment of sovereign independent state with its capital, Jerusalem.
We hold the Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. Ariel Sharon, as responsible for this ongoing massacre and previous massacres as in Sabra Shatela in 1982, and should be tried as a war criminal for crimes against humanity.
Signed by:
Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism
Communist Party of Australia
Democratic Trend, Bahrain
Communist Party of Belarus
Workers' Party of Belgium
Communist Party of Brazil
New Communist Party of Britain
Bulgarian Communist Party �Georgi Dimitrov�
Communist Party of Bulgaria
Marxist Platform of Bulgarian Socialist Party
Communist Party of Canada
Colombian Communist Party
FARC-EP, Colombia
Communist Party of Cuba
AKEL-Cyprus
Communist Party of Bohemia Moravia
Communist Party in Denmark
Communist Party of Egypt
Communist Party of Greece
Hungarian Workers' Party
Communist Party of India
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Tudeh Party of Iran
Iraqi Communist Party
Kurdistan Communist Party - Iraq
Communist Party of Israel
Party of the Communist Refounding, Italy
Party of the Italian Communists, Italy
Jordanian Communist Party
Workers' Party of Korea
Socialist Party of Latvia
Lebanese Communist Party
New Communist Party of the Netherlands
Communist Party of Norway
Portuguese Communist Party
Romanian Communist Party
Communist Party of Russian Federation
Communist Workers' Party of Russia
Communist Party of Slovakia
Communist Party of Spain
United Left of Spain
Communist Party of People of Spain
Sudanese Communist Party
Syrian Communist Party
Syrian Communist Party
Party for Socialist Power (SIP) Communist Party, Turkey
The Party of Labour (EMEP), Turkey
Communist Party of Ukraine
Union of Communists of Ukraine
Communist Party, USA
Communist Party of Vietnam
New Communist Party of Yugoslavia